Hanging Out with My Peeps

If I take a look backward, I realize that I have the best time hanging out with my cancer friends, or ' my peeps ' . Sometimes I feel like I hold back on my health with everyone and more so with people who don ' t have cancer - a/k/a the people who don ' t really get it. I mean they try.I have many friends with varying understanding of what its like to live with cancer. One friend, who has RA and has lost a husband to cancer, is very, very close to understanding the life I live. Then I also have friends who barely know what fibromyalgia is.Part of it is me. I tend to not be very open about my medical stuff until I am ready to talk about it. The first person I tell is my husband when it comes to medical crap. Then I start telling my family and my cancer friends. My family comes next because they are my family. Then my cancer friends get it.Every week I go to my knitting group at a cancer support center. We all have cancer in varying states of treatment and health status. We have not known each other too long. Sometimes it takes a week or two for people to open up about their cancer. But we sit there and laugh about life. We really have a lot of fun. And there is always a little sigh when our time comes to an end and we head our different ways.I also find that I spend most of time with other friends with cancer. First of all, they are most like to be retired like me and have time during the day (I don ' t go out at night). Second, we can all relate to our health issues.So ...
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