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Just got my CT results from a very up-beat sounding nurse. No change.
A cancer survivor friend was telling me today about the many stresses currently overwhelming her. They are very significant stressors. But then she said how great it was to be freaking about something other than potentially dying of cancer. I laughed. I’ve felt the same before…grateful for things that overwhelmed me that weren’t cancer. Stress [...]
When is it over? I remember having that thought often. I was so psyched to “beat it”, to survive my cancer. When could you officially declare that you’d won the battle and relax? I had always assumed the 5 year mark was the definition of “cured” in the cancer world. Everyone talked about 5 year [...]
Being a cancer patient and assuming that identity impacts your thinking in all ways. I’d always been somewhat of a control freak, and I suddenly realized my sense of being control was and always had been an illusion. All of my assumptions about my future had been based on the fact that I would indeed [...]
I’m reading the book “Jane Brody’s Guide to the Great Beyond”. The book is well written, and even includes some tasteful comics (“Grandpa’s secret to longevity is life support”). It is a book we all need to read. We all need to think about living wills and our feelings about life support. We all need [...]
In 1969 Elizabeth Kubler-Ross published her classic book, “On Death and Dying”. I was required to read it as a class assignment in nursing school. The book outlined the five stages of grief and loss of someone who is dying. In later years, these stages of grief and loss became known to be associated with [...]
Reading Lene’s post on dreams yesterday got me thinking about a post I wrote on that subject last March.
I communicate with many cancer patients now as a result of having been in the cancer world for several years. I so appreciated the wisdom that fellow patients have articulated and sent my way this week.
I read something recently that struck home and made me think. It compared cancer patient relationships to those of survivors of natural disasters or other community tragedies. In my experience, those are sometimes situations that bring out the best in humanity, the best in human nature. I was thinking about a terrible snow storm in [...]
Dallas, TX: With little time left to fight their way through in the hope of extending the survival period, mesothelioma cancer patients nearly live on the edge, as once diagnosed with mesothelioma lung cancer, their time in world of living is numbered. Their survival remains at doubt leaving them with 6 months to a year [...]