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Ah, if we're keeping with the physics metaphor, then the second derivative of one's life trajectory would be one's acceleration through life. It seems you are correct that rapid acceleration--or, as in the case of the author, life coming to a screeching halt--of one's life can create an enormous amount of stress. By the same token, it can be a great motivator to success. I think having a mastectomy, especially at age 31, would probably leave any woman horribly depressed.
Yes. But maybe it would be more correct to call it the accelerations within one's life?
At any rate, this was tough to read. Sometimes things happen where you can fully understand what happened, and yet cannot fully understand what happened to you because of it. I think she is waiting to find out, and I can see having a hard time following someone else's narrative in the meantime.