Having trouble just coping
Hi , Im new to this group and after ready some stories I am greatful for my early diagnosis, well not that early stage 2a. But still I know I am in a better odds position that lots of others. Im a mum...
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Ah, Shorelle, there are many reasons we don't want this disease. Mine came back in my armpit (Cancer in the armpit? Really? WTF?)
I can't dwell on it as far as worrying about it coming back. I used to say that what doesn't kill you makes you stranger, now I think it just hangs around in the background and has another go later. There it is again, the black humour and cynical outlook that drives some of us.
As far as fair is concerned, meh. Little kids getting cancer is not fair. Innocent people getting slaughtered in pointless wars isn't fair. People dying of preventable diseases because they are too poor to afford basic medicine, that is really not fair. A recurrent cancer in a middle aged woman who has had the benefit of a wild and wide life in one of the most privileged countries in the world. No, probably not 'fair', but I've had a pretty good run. We will see what happens, but I can assure you, if I didn't think my experience would be somehow helpful to others, I probably wouldn't discuss my disease very often.
You can move on. Things are a new normal, but you can move on. Marg xx