Resilience/Persistence - mine and hers
According to my Oura ring app, "resilience" is "your ability to withstand and recover from physiological stress over time." And according to my app, my resilience is "solid and on the rise." I thought I knew something about resilience, after nearly 5 years of cancer treatments and cancer-prevention treatments. A month and a half ago, I went through the latest round of prevention treatment with a salpingo-oophrectomy: I had my ovaries and fallopian tubes removed, forever solidifying my place in a post-menopausal world at the ripe old age of 43. At my oncology appointment four months ago, we did blood work to confirm my hormones were still suppressed (recall my breast cancer was heavily estrogen and progesterone driven), and they were not. This news, despite the monthly Lupron shot I self-administered to suppress my ovaries. So my decision was to switch to a different monthly shot that was a "less desirable" injection, or have my ovaries remove...
