[Cancer]
[cancer] A very bad day
A very bad day yesterday.
Cancer is a social disease. It affects everyone in the patient’s circle. In my experience, the mental and emotional pressures of cancer can be just as great or greater for family, friends and caregivers as they are for the patient. There are scars in many more places than my body.
It’s a road I walk alone, until the cloud is either lifted or descends to envelop me permanently. But the shadow of my disease is long, and blocks many other people’s roads. Their stories are their own to tell, or not, as they please.
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Posted: 6:18 am Mon December 31 2012 |
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Damn. I’m sorry, for you and your loved ones.
I’m sorry to hear this, too.
Gentle hugs.
/hugs
Hugs.
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When Rachel Sinclair Hunt was diagnosed with her most recent bout of cancer, I wrote a poem. Don’t know why, I’m not a poet and it isn’t very good, but that was what came out of me.
*hugs*
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Sorry Jay. Hope that your days get better with the new year!
I’m sorry to hear this. I hope 2013 will be better for you.