The After Effects

//Chapter one//

You'd think that a 17 year old like me, Grace Holbrook would be quite normal, but that's not the way life works. You see I, Grace Holbrook was diagnosed with stage 2 Ewing Sarcoma early march of 2013.

It's rare in adults, let alone kids. Well that's what they said, they told me I was one of the lucky ones. They said it usually comes in your bone so they don't catch it as early.

Except I don't feel lucky, I feel like damaged goods that was just stuck with a bunch of needles then thrown off to the side.

My cancer was in my neck, C3 to T2 I believe. If your wondering what that is it's the plates in your neck that hold your spine together.

Well that's what they told me. The way I found out was actually because of people making fun of me for being crooked. The tumor was pushing up against my spinal cord so it made my shoulders shift into, well making me look crooked.

I went to the doctors and they didn't even run tests, they just sent me to physical Therapy. They were real shitty doctors because the physical therapist was the one who sent me to an MRI.

They of course found a mass and that was the start of my journey.

I've had Surgery, chemo, radiation, more surgery. It just felt like they weren't trying to help me anymore, it felt like I was just an experiment to them.

But I got through it, they did the scans and nothing lit up, nothing was there at all.

They scanned me six months later and still nothing. They then told me that I was cancer free and I need to start my life as a 17 year old in remission.

So I did.

So don't worry guys this isn't a book about the tragic life with cancer, this is a book about the tragic life after cancer.