Survivor Talks of Getting Ovarian Cancer at Seventeen
Positive comes along with the negative
There was an upside to all the attention, though: Before finding out she had cancer and before going through chemotherapy, she had been very shy and introverted. Going through what she went through made her realize that she should put herself out there more and be more social. She started going out more and learned how to be a more outgoing teenager. Spending time with her friends became her way of coping.