Newly diagnosed - tough day
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A pathologist once referred to ‘my adventure’ - at the time I could have cheerfully throttled him, but I soon realised he was right. Adventures can be scary, you go places you haven’t been before (or even wanted to go!), do unfamiliar things, have to learn new languages. But after your adventure, you are still you. A more experienced you, a more knowledgeable you, maybe even wiser.
Human beings can only go forward, which is sometimes the hardest realisation, particularly if your ‘before’ life was a really good one. But that applies in any circumstances.
Recording your experience is a great idea - I wrote, and still do, it’s an important means of shifting and sorting ideas and feelings. That in itself is something I never did before cancer.
Eleven (extremely good) years on, I can’t say I’m glad I had cancer (who would?) but it’s shaped some good results in how I live, work and view life. Onwards and upwards!
A pathologist once referred to ‘my adventure’ - at the time I could have cheerfully throttled him, but I soon realised he was right. Adventures can be scary, you go places you haven’t been before (or even wanted to go!), do unfamiliar things, have to learn new languages. But after your adventure, you are still you. A more experienced you, a more knowledgeable you, maybe even wiser.
Human beings can only go forward, which is sometimes the hardest realisation, particularly if your ‘before’ life was a really good one. But that applies in any circumstances.
Recording your experience is a great idea - I wrote, and still do, it’s an important means of shifting and sorting ideas and feelings. That in itself is something I never did before cancer.
Eleven (extremely good) years on, I can’t say I’m glad I had cancer (who would?) but it’s shaped some good results in how I live, work and view life. Onwards and upwards!