Lillian posts positive and encouraging things on social media.
Transcript
And I made a switch in my approach to being sick at that point. And up until then, I had been just getting through each thing. Like it was like get through the surgery, get through the first chemotherapy, get through the first four chemotherapy, get through this second four. You’re going to have surgery, like just get through each one. And then I decided, well, this could be the rest of my life. So I can’t just be getting through things, I have to be living as well as even though, I was on the couch a lot because I was so fatigued. So I started doing – made myself do a social media post, which I normally only look at things I don’t have like a lot of friends. But every day is a happy moment. So I have to post every day, a happy moment with the hashtag happy moments. So that every day I’m looking for something positive and something like near home, and something that is a happy thing.
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