Andrea Gibson

People think it's so nerdy, but it's so good.

And I was surprised.

The thing that I was surprised by, and I think the thing that I've wanted to share, is that my whole life I had this terror.

My whole life I had this idea that as soon as I got news like this, that I would just be in a cave all curled up and devastated and

and having no access to joy.

And the thing that I've learned through these last two years is, God, I wasted so much time fearing the emotions that I would have in the future.

And that fear that I had in the past is far more than what I'm experiencing right now.

The present moment is far more doable than the future or the past.

And so that happened.

And then when I got in the doctorate,

I'm not someone who has historically been a big fan of Western medicine or big pharma or any of that.

I've had a lot of questions about that.

But when I first got diagnosed and they said, do chemo, I was like, this is what I'm doing.

I'm going to just listen to what they say to do.

And doing that has kept me alive for two years.

And so I don't want to

throw all of that out.

I respect it.

I have loved my doctors.

I've had two women oncologists at this point and both of them I loved.