The Challenges of a Young Adult Affected by Cancer, Facing Mortality Head On, and Dating After Cancer

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Salma Harfouche, A colorful and intrepid heart cancer survivor, is a branding expert (as in marketing, not cows), and cow lover (as in friends and hamburgers) also loves puns as much as you do.
"If they dig you, they're totally open to having that conversation, and they're probably gonna appreciate it, honestly." Can you relate?
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Sal dishes on:

• The frustration with knowing something was wrong and not being diagnosed
• Facing mortality
• Survivor guilt when others did not make it
• Body image changes, dealing with scars (external and heartfelt)
• How therapy and shared experiences make a difference
• Dating after cancer
• Being upfront with potential romantic interests about being a survivor and the accompanying issues (such as infertility) before the first date
• Pain with sex after cancer
• The side-by-side lanes of blessings and survivorship issues, and dynamic switching of lanes, wrenching herself back into the blessings lane
• How Sal came to love having cows put their head in her lap (she does not whisper to them that she loves burgers).

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