I think I am reading too much :(

It can be a bit like a newly pregnant (for the first time mum) reading all about the other women who ended up with custard pie acne, varicose veins which looked like anacondas having sex up their legs, haemorrhoids like huge bunches of purple grapes hanging from their bottoms,and backache which left them bed bound for eight months. They then go on to have 38 hour labours where 13lb babies are finally delivered using weed whackers, salad tongs, and sometimes a knife and fork. They never hear about the ordinary rest. Same here. The difference between one person's experience, versus another's can be huge. Or even the same person, at different times. Some of us have other medical baggage to shhlep around with us also, as well as other baggage from out past or even present...aside from the cancer. There have been times over the past few years when I read about someones dreadful experience around a particular treatment or drug, which didn't affect me as badly. I feel if I respond with my "easy time" of it, it may come across as a negating of the other person't dreadful time, and almost boasting..."Nyehh nyeh... I had it easy...so there". On the other hand my surgery resulted in a revisit to the operating theatre, nine units of blood, four of plasma, eleven days in ICU, followed by three weeks on the surgical ward. I don't share that particular Addams Family saga with newbies and scare the living crap out of them, as this was my story...not theirs. (I have other medical issues which contributed to this shitfest).