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Janey235
13 years agoMember
A shared thought
Hi my pink sisters.
I've been lying awaking with thoughts going through my head and I thought I'd put them down and share them with you. I wrote a poem and called it WAITING. Here goes.
This was the day it all began.
I'll explain it all to you if I can.
I'm in a clinic awaiting my test.
A routine exam I have on my breasts.
I'm sitting in a chair. Waiting.
It's over now, on with life's daily grind.
I don't have any bad thoughts in my mind.
A letter arrives, I'm ill at ease.
I thought the mammogram would be a breeze.
I go to the hospital to have more tests.
I'm told not to worry, I'll do my best.
I'm sitting in a chair. Waiting.
Poked and prodded and scared right now.
Could this be happening I wonder. How?
Just days ago I felt care free.
Could this be happening? How could this be?
The results are in and I go back there.
Back to the hospital, I begin to despair.
And I sit in a chair. Waiting.
The worst news possible, my life turns around.
I cry out but there isn't a sound.
Plans are made but I'm spinning and turning.
I don't hear a thing.
By my ears are burning.
I fear the worst. It's black as night.
But my love is with me. He holds me tight.
Now it begins, this journey of mine.
More hospital visits, my new daily grind.
I sit in chairs. Waiting.
My body is cut, the invasion is gone.
I'm overwhelmed with relief, I can now carry on.
But now comes the hard times I'll need to endure.
With drugs I am hit. Is this a cure?
Long months go by, I'm in such pain.
I must go through it again and again.
Another infusion, just one more.
It's the hardest thing I've ever done before.
I sit in my chair. Waiting
I'm over the worst but with a hurdle to go.
Back to the hospital and this time I know
my body will be different than it was before.
I grieve and I ache to my very core.
But my love is with me, he holds me near.
He gives me strength, I should not fear.
I'm a survivor, I have come through.
It's like starting over, like starting anew.
The sun is shining, the clouds are abating.
I'm out of my chair, my life is waiting!
I hope you enjoy reading this. It gives me pleasure to share it.
Love to you all
Janey xxx
53 Replies
- Janey235MemberAww thanks Jen. :) hugs back to you. X
- jenpenMember
Hi Janey
You definitely have inherited your Dad & Mums talents!
Lovely, lovely poem....and exactly describing that waiting we all have to deal with....thanks for sharing it Janey....
Hugs to you, Jen x
- Janey235MemberI am so glad you liked my poem. I hope you are travelling well on your own journey and that you are beginning to see the light at the end of your tunnel as I am. It's been an awful year but hoping that 2014 bring healing to us all. Love Janey xxx
- Janey235MemberI am so glad you liked my poem. I hope you are travelling well on your own journey and that you are beginning to see the light at the end of your tunnel as I am. It's been an awful year but hoping that 2014 bring healing to us all. Love Janey xxx
- Jackie50MemberJaney..you hsve touched many of us with this poem. I thank you for love & feelings you have written about through this journey we all have endured. Good luck with your surgery & hope all your dreams come true in 2014 xxx Best wishes jackie
- Hazel_MMember
Hi Janey, your poem is something special, it relates exactly what happens to us. Very moving, we are so not alone, thanks for sharing,
Love Hazel xx
- Kel_JacksonMember
Oh Janey,
I joined this afternoon and have just come across your journey. My thoughts are with you. I have recurring bc and have just been informed of masectomy. I am so like you with choices but steering towards tram flap. I have had radiation on this boobie and they are not sure if they can save my skin......so scary.
Enough about me........best of luck for you op and may you have the speediest of recoveries....talk soon
Kel xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Also just wanted to let you know that I too have shared your wonderful poem with my friends and family on facebook, only I adjusted it slightly to include radiation treatment as I have as yet not needed chemo. As a result I have had a fb friend contact me as, unbeknown to me, she has been going through a hell of a time with a type of gyno cancer and we are going to catch up for a cuppa on Thursday and have a chat about our "journeys". It has been about ten years since we last saw each other, in the physical sense that is. God bless you Janey!
Vicki
Just lovely Janey!
I am about to hit the 1 year mark since I was first diagnosed so for me it will be back to the radiation oncologist and specialist to undergo the required testing to make sure there has been no reoccurence. So once again I will be just sitting in that chair and waiting, on my own, for the good, or bad, news. Testing times and only those who have been or are going through it understand how it all feels. Your poem says it all!
Hugs,
Vicki oXo
ps. If only my mother and sister would understand what I have been going through!
- sallywMember
My bad, I must have been tired this morning. Good luck for your surgery on Tuesday. I hope it all goes well. Sally.xx