Anxious about its return
Hi , I know there is so much support on here and when Im feeling anxious I seem to come here but Im reading so many recurrences Im thinking its making me more fearful than I am already. When the docto...
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The fear if the cancer will return is perfectly normal. Reading about others put us in doubt about our own treatment. I know it was one of my constant thoughts at the beginning.
My treatment needed to be stopped early and it was terrifying for me to think what that may mean.
But....slowly slowly I started to have less thoughts about it. I started to think of myself as a survivor. Yes...no guarantees. Yes I still worry about every damn twinge being metastases. But it is now in the background, not the foreground.
We don't know if we are going to be one of the ones who it never returns for. We dont know if it will, when it will be if it does, if it can be treated easily etc etc.
But I do know that only thinking those thoughts all the time will make your life a misery.
So how to switch. Self talk. Tell yourself you are a survivor. ..because you are.
Tell yourself you will reclaim your life...because you will...if you choose to.
These things we can control. And we are worth the self care it takes to make us feel happy again. Because why? ...We are all worth that. Kath x
My treatment needed to be stopped early and it was terrifying for me to think what that may mean.
But....slowly slowly I started to have less thoughts about it. I started to think of myself as a survivor. Yes...no guarantees. Yes I still worry about every damn twinge being metastases. But it is now in the background, not the foreground.
We don't know if we are going to be one of the ones who it never returns for. We dont know if it will, when it will be if it does, if it can be treated easily etc etc.
But I do know that only thinking those thoughts all the time will make your life a misery.
So how to switch. Self talk. Tell yourself you are a survivor. ..because you are.
Tell yourself you will reclaim your life...because you will...if you choose to.
These things we can control. And we are worth the self care it takes to make us feel happy again. Because why? ...We are all worth that. Kath x