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If I Can Get Through Cancer, I Can Get Through Anything — Carrie Kreiswirth on Setting Goals
“I know it sounds funny but I never would have even considered running a marathon if I didn’t have cancer,” Carrie Kreiswirth told SurvivorNet. Believe it or not, she’s not the only one. A lot of survivors tell us that they discovered a new-found inner strength after taking on the disease, and decided to put it to good use.
Carrie explains that she struggled a lot during treatment — she even felt like she lost a part of herself when she was feeling rundown during chemotherapy. So how did she turn it around? “I got to a certain point where I just started making certain shifts and certain changes and slowly, but surely, I have started to feel more like myself than I ever had,” Carrie says. “I changed a lot of my eating habits, I changed my exercise habits. Running a marathon was certainly a lofty goal to set for myself, but I needed that. I needed to know that I could do that … and if I had gone through cancer and come out the other side, then I could do anything.”
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“I know it sounds funny but I never would have even considered running a marathon if I didn’t have cancer,” Carrie Kreiswirth told SurvivorNet. Believe it or not, she’s not the only one. A lot of survivors tell us that they discovered a new-found inner strength after taking on the disease, and decided to put it to good use.
Carrie explains that she struggled a lot during treatment — she even felt like she lost a part of herself when she was feeling rundown during chemotherapy. So how did she turn it around? “I got to a certain point where I just started making certain shifts and certain changes and slowly, but surely, I have started to feel more like myself than I ever had,” Carrie says. “I changed a lot of my eating habits, I changed my exercise habits. Running a marathon was certainly a lofty goal to set for myself, but I needed that. I needed to know that I could do that … and if I had gone through cancer and come out the other side, then I could do anything.”
Learn more about SurvivorNet's rigorous medical review process.
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