Waiting Isn’t Wasted

There’s a special kind of waiting that comes with cancer. It’s not the waiting in line at the grocery store. It’s not the kind you fill with your phone or a podcast. It’s the waiting for scan results, the waiting between treatments, the waiting to see if something is working, and sometimes simply the waiting to exhale.

Early on, we thought these stretches of time were just something to get through. They felt like uncomfortable pauses on a long road, empty spaces between the things that actually mattered. But over time, we’ve learned …