Waiting for Election Results is Like Waiting for the Next Scan in Cancer

The scanxiety is real, and here’s how I’ve learned to cope

Photo by Hush Naidoo on Unsplash

My anxiety used to grow in the days leading up to the next scan as we’ve navigated my husband’s Stage IV cancer. What version of the future would we get to live? He had done all the treatments, I had fed him all the kale. Was it enough to make a…