{"id":2979,"date":"2026-04-08T16:58:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T14:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hunderttausendmuetter.de\/?p=2979"},"modified":"2026-04-09T17:00:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:00:43","slug":"10-years-ago-today-my-life-was-divided-into-before-and-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hunderttausendmuetter.de\/en\/heute-vor-10-jahren-wurde-mein-leben-in-davor-und-danach-geteilt\/","title":{"rendered":"10 years ago today, my life was divided into \u201ebefore\u201c and \u201eafter\u201c."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing was the same afterwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On April 8, 2016, a doctor sent me off into the weekend with the words:<br>\u201eMake the most of every day you have left. Your tumor is highly aggressive and already over 7 cm in size. This type of cancer usually spreads from a size of 3 cm. It is very likely that you already have metastases.\u201c<br>I sat there like I was in a movie. Afterwards, I went back to the office and just carried on working. It was only in bed at night, when my then 2.5-year-old son and my daughter, who had just turned a year old, were lying with me, that I really realized what I had been told. I had the first panic attack of my life.<br>The fact that I am sitting here today and am healthy is a miracle. And, of course, thanks to modern medicine.<br>Since then, I've felt invincible on the one hand - and at the same time I'm still scared to death. I often find this simultaneity hard to bear, which is why my thoughts are sometimes gloomy. I can often only half enjoy beautiful moments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nevertheless, I am grateful for the \u201eafterwards\u201c section.<br>It has brought me a lot of good things - above all a radical clarity about what is important to me.<br>Who I want to spend my time with.<br>Sometimes I am uncompromising in this.<br>And I have to keep telling myself that self-care has nothing to do with selfishness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I realized that even close friends still find it difficult to understand what actually happened to me back then.<br>It often looked so \u201eeasy\u201c from the outside - because I was always positive. And because I'm healthy again today. But it was and is hard.<br>What got me through it? First and foremost my children.<br>Dying was simply not an option. Never.<br>I want to see them grow up - and only have to leave when I know that they can carry on without me from then on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Until then, I'll stay here.<br>fckcncr<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nichts war danach mehr so wie vorher. Am 8. April 2016 hat mich ein Arzt mit den Worten ins Wochenende geschickt:\u201eNutzen Sie jeden Tag, den Sie noch haben. Ihr Tumor ist hochaggressiv und bereits \u00fcber 7 cm gro\u00df. Diese Art von Krebs streut gew\u00f6hnlich ab einer Gr\u00f6\u00dfe von 3 cm. Es ist sehr wahrscheinlich, dass [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-16 23:42:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunderttausendmuetter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunderttausendmuetter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunderttausendmuetter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunderttausendmuetter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunderttausendmuetter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hunderttausendmuetter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2981,"href":"https:\/\/hunderttausendmuetter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979\/revisions\/2981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunderttausendmuetter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunderttausendmuetter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunderttausendmuetter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunderttausendmuetter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}