“When I found out that it was ovarian cancer, I felt so guilty,” says Anna DeMers, 63, a stage 1C ovarian cancer survivor. The reason DeMers felt guilty, she says, wasn’t that she felt as though she had caused her cancer, but rather that she feared her diagnosis would upend the life that she and her husband had built together.
“Knowing that it was ovarian cancer and how dire the possibility of diagnosis could be and what the financial ramifications could be made me feel like I was making this horrendous impact on our lives,” DeMers remembers, explaining that, at the time of her diagnosis, her husband was retired and she was working as the breadwinner. She had six more years to go until she could retire. “I was afraid that we wouldn’t be able to have the dream life that we had been working for,” she says.
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