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In Limbo
Hi ladies, so I finished chemo 2 weeks ago and was so excited to be finished with that stage of treatment but this week I am feeling really anxious. I seem to constantly be thinking about the cancer a...
You're not being paranoid. One of the changes in perception we go through is realising that lots of bad things might happen in life but pre-disastering everything and assuming the worst doesn't help a tad. You can't live like that and many of us didn't live like that before cancer. I used to get every imaginable ache and odd sensation annually before every test. So far this year (there's yet time!) I haven't. Which is, I suspect, because I finally realise I can't alter it if it's bad news and that I am also much better prepared for it. As @iserbrown says, ease up. This all takes time.