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The disappearing, re-appearing self
The diagnosis of cancer has the capacity to temporarily stop time. It is an unforgiving land mine, that shears normalcy into barely recognisable fragments. During diagnosis and treatment, your body b...
I love the expression that a cancer diagnosis seems to temporarily stop time. I feel like I've lost so many months of my life - yet I can tell you what I was doing all of that time. Now I'm on weekly Taxol and feel like life is an endless series of Thursdays (chemo day) - it always seems to be Thursday! I'm choosing to see that as positive as it means today I'm having dose 8 of 12 - so it's nearly done without me having to really think about it too much.
Along the way in this weird twilight zone I've met so many lovely people, fellow patients, nurses, admin staff & doctors, they have been inspiring, friendly and confidence-building, but they will stay in this 'lost' time in my life.
We keep on keeping on :-)