No question about it.

Cancer sucks.

I'm an oncologist.

My patients remind me every day that chemo sucks just as much.  

Nothing can make them both suck less.

But I'm a sherpa, guiding beautiful souls up the mountain of treatment.

My patients teach me more about life every day than I could ever teach them about chemo.

Resilience.

Thriving through adversity.

Through sucky chemo.

My patients train my mind and my body.

My emotions and my spiritual side.

They train me.

They teach me what it means to work toward self-mastery.

They make every day a turning point for me.

Thy kick my butt.

They kick chemo's butt.