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Here you will find useful articles filled with practical information and encouragement for your cancer journey.
Crazy Cancer Thoughts
Crazy cancer thoughts go through your mind in all phases of cancer treatments. In no particular order, here are some of the crazy cancer thoughts that occupied my mind when I was going through cancer treatments.
Where We’ve Been And Where We’re Going
Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going gives excerpts of articles we have already discussed on our cancer journey, and introduces articles that will be presented as we go farther along this unwanted journey.
An Unwanted Journey
You don’t have to have cancer to go on an unwanted cancer journey. Though it is a different kind of journey than someone who has cancer, it is a cancer journey just the same. This article tells of one person’s multiple experiences with cancer.
What is a Cancer Journey?
What is a cancer journey? A cancer journey can be a wild, life-changing experience or just a side trip on the way to the rest of your life. This article talks about a husband and wife who each had cancer. One took a short cancer trip while the other will be on a cancer journey for the rest of their life.
Who is MAB?
“Help me, Kelly,” my mother cried out in pain. “You know what to do.”
“I know I have breast cancer,” I said to the radiologist as she entered the room with a look of doom on her face.
“I already know I have breast cancer. The biopsy is just to find out which kind of cancer it is.”
My heart stopped. Not again!
The Day Cancer Turned Pink…Again
My dad had had colon cancer. My mom had had breast cancer. My grandmother-in-law had had bone cancer. And I had breast cancer.
I was just finishing the final phase of my cancer treatments and thought, at last, I could put cancer behind me.
Until that day. Until the day cancer turned pink…again.
My heart stopped. Not again!
The Day Cancer Turned Royal Blue
Besides being my dad, Phil was a giant in my eyes. When I was young and we would go into stores together, my dad always had me hold onto his index finger so I would not wander off and get lost. I didn’t hold onto his whole hand because his hand was so large that my hand would only fit around his finger. Even as I grew older, my dad loomed large in my eyes…
He looked strange to me when he lost his hair this time. Not because he was bald, but because he looked vulnerable to me for the first time in my life. My giant of a father was shrinking into a sickly-looking man.
THE DAY CANCER TURNED PINK
We went to a wig shop to buy a wig when she lost all her hair from the chemo. I had fun having her try on some outrageous wigs making her think I thought she should get one of those. She caught on to my orneriness. In the end, she got one that closely matched her usual hairstyle.
After months of treatments, she was declared cancer-free. What a relief!
Or was she?
The Day I Met Cancer in the Mirror
The radiologist came into my room with a look of dread on her face after the tests were completed. She introduced herself, but she didn’t have to tell me the diagnosis — I already knew it.
I said to her, “I already know I have breast cancer.”
The look on her face changed to relief mixed with confusion. “How do you know you have breast cancer?”
“I’ve been waiting to be told I have cancer ever since my mom died of breast cancer,” I said.
An overwhelming sense of relief came over me.