Five years is a big deal in cancer terms because if you make it that long without any recurrence, the chances of it coming back drop significantly. It will go away,” but it didn’t for a long, long time. And even when, amid those things, I did get a mild case of COVID and recovered, the anxiety remained. Today, I live very much the way I did before COVID and cancer, but at times, I still feel my body tensing around crowds and unpredictable situations. Just as having cancer has forever changed me, COVID did, too.
