Since Nefa Tari Moore worked in the nursing field, she thought she had a pretty good idea of what the cancer experience was like … that is, until she was diagnosed herself.
Nefa has dealt with cancer several times. She faced uterine cancer twice, and then was diagnosed with ovarian cancer just last year. She said that even though she didn’t know what to expect on her cancer journey, the fact that she had been around other people as they embarked on their’s really helped her to process the whole situation. “I think it helped to work with people who were terminally ill from cancer,” Nefa said. “It led me to know the stages of things that I might have to go through, the side effects of the chemotherapy. Once you have your ovaries removed, you go right into menopause. It was a big blow because that means I can’t have children biologically on my own.”
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