National Cancer Survivor's Day
**This post has been transferred from the now defunct "The Long Ease" blog.** I've been moving toward this new blog for a minute now. A blog that is not just about being positive in the face of cancer. But a blog that is about where I am NOW. A blog about survivorship. The awesome parts AS WELL AS the downright shitty parts. A blog where I feel comfortable going back to the rawness and the realness of the original Phoebe's Stupid Cancer blog. I want to write again, but for a long time, the "Positive" part of Positively Phoebe would just flat stop me every time I'd sit down at my desk and open up the blogger window. A lot of people encouraged me to stick with that blog and that title, and no offense is intended toward those who felt that would help me. But the truth, for ME, is that I was only being positive for other people for the past several months. I had created a persona and I received genuine disappointment from some ...