The roller coaster that is cancer at 5 years since diagnoses may have less severe dips, and maybe not quite as many upside down loop-de-loops that the newly diagnosed roller coaster of treatment has.
But every now and then it takes a surprise turn, the kind where the coaster is happily going along with birds tweeting and butterflies fluttering all around you, then suddenly..... I guess basically I'm saying it's just still not easy. And it still surprises me that it's not.
I read an article about how a cancer diagnosis causes PTSD, i felt almost ashamed to admit that this felt true. It seems that how can this compare to the horrors that one thinks of when you hear of a person with PTSD. But I've come to accept this is true. In varying levels of severity.
But every now and then it takes a surprise turn, the kind where the coaster is happily going along with birds tweeting and butterflies fluttering all around you, then suddenly..... I guess basically I'm saying it's just still not easy. And it still surprises me that it's not.
I read an article about how a cancer diagnosis causes PTSD, i felt almost ashamed to admit that this felt true. It seems that how can this compare to the horrors that one thinks of when you hear of a person with PTSD. But I've come to accept this is true. In varying levels of severity.
It's hard to read a book with constant tears. Tears of emotion, and hope, and sadness, and compassion, and gratitude. That sums up the survival roller coaster
