What it's like being a cancer patient
Telling it how it is
My friend and fellow cancer patient, Angela, left me a little message the other day:
"Keep writing, keep letting people know what it’s like."
Isn't it great when someone gives you a little boost, out of the blue?
I've had a "quiet patch" in the last few days, physically and mentally.
Physically, with a dose of flu myself and pain in the knee preventing me from my favourite therapy: running around the hills like, well, an Escaped Patient. (ChemoTherapy is radical. Radiation Therapy is drastic. Give me Mountain Therapy any day).
In a deeper sense, several of my friends & contacts have been going through difficult times recently, which has left me thinking: 'how can I help?' and leading to: 'I'm not sure if there's really a lot I can do to help'. Helplessness is a truly frustrating feeling.