The reactions of those around you when you tell them you have CANCER.
This was a revelation to me.
I joked that I was taking one for the team dark humour – it appealed to me!
All the opinions of others regarding what was going on in MY body.
Everyone was suddenly the EXPERT… “Do this”, “you must do that”, “FFS get it cut out” plastered all over my social media, “Oh, you most definitely CAN’T DO THAT, do you want to DIE?”
I don’t think that anyone expects to get a cancer diagnosis, it just isn’t on our radar, it is something that happens to somebody else.
So when it is YOU, you just sit there … in disbelief.
Are they talking to me? Surely not?
How can you tell me what to do when I don’t know myself what to do?
How can I think with all this noise around me? Why must I act so fast …
You are scaring me, run far away, far away from the opinions of others.
Regroup, be tender, be kind to YOURSELF, try not to be SCARED, I read that the FEAR doesn’t help, stress causes an inflammatory response, not good for an already sick body.
I read that 1 in 2 people born after 1960 will have some sort of cancer diagnosis in their lifetime.
But I didn’t think that I would be the 1 in 2!
