Living Without Cancer

I have had further thoughts on my post from the other day onNot Talking About Cancer and then more thoughts. As I wrote about enjoying not talking about cancer, it really made me think. What if you didn ' t even have to consider talking about cancer or not talking about cancer? Because you had never had cancer?I think this is the part that I am stuck on and really struggle with at times. I have never been an adult with out cancer. This is very difficult for me. I went from being a fun loving, college freshman to a cancer person. (This means if you got to know me after August 1981 you never knew the pre-cancer me.)If you have had cancer, can you think about your life before and after cancer (and none of that ' new normal ' bullshit) how have you changed? How has your cancer diagnosis changed you? What is different about your life?I couldn ' t tell you what is different about my life, before and after cancer. Whatever equilibrium I reached after my first cancer diagnosis, it was shattered by my second one. I do know that having cancer once before, gave me some additional experience for my second diagnosis, but even then I wasn ' t prepared.No matter what I think you are never really prepared for life as a patient instead of life as a person. My big struggle is to learn to cope with this in life. Perhaps this is why I have therapy?
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: being a patient cancer diagnosis quality of life Source Type: blogs