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To OWN (or NOT to own) my cancer
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This summer I attended the wedding of my nephew in Boise, Idaho where I met a very lovely woman (my nephew's new Mother In Law) who told me her story of surviving breast cancer. I was very interested in speaking to her about cancer issues because in conversations with her daughter I had learned that this lady was proactive in preventive herbalism and had traveled to Mexico to do the treatments there.
Anyway, her story was as follows, that when she was diagnosed about 3 years ago, the prognosis was not very good. She was given 6 months to live. She tried chemotherapy but became so ill that she took herself to Mexico and began the treatments there. So far, according to her rendition, she has lived well beyond her initial prognosis and without the prescribed chemotherapy.
That's HER story....
As I began to recount my own cancer saga to her and in a very unconscious way, I began with the following introductional phrase, "
When I got MY cancer...."
Well, the Mother In Law stopped me in the middle of my sentence and gently rebuked me by saying,
"NEVER CALL IT YOUR CANCER. Get this idea out of your mind. It is not YOUR cancer. Learn to not own it. I learned this concept from a cancer therapist and it is very good advice."
Well, I was a little taken aback, but I can say that in my initial reaction I did not feel to be in agreement with this concept.
Not wanting to shake her faith, I did not at that time reply, but the idea has since been on my mind and I do not know whether I am right or I am wrong.
I really can't comprehend of the cancer in any other way.
Just thinking out loud.....
This summer I attended the wedding of my nephew in Boise, Idaho where I met a very lovely woman (my nephew's new Mother In Law) who told me her story of surviving breast cancer. I was very interested in speaking to her about cancer issues because in conversations with her daughter I had learned that this lady was proactive in preventive herbalism and had traveled to Mexico to do the treatments there.
Anyway, her story was as follows, that when she was diagnosed about 3 years ago, the prognosis was not very good. She was given 6 months to live. She tried chemotherapy but became so ill that she took herself to Mexico and began the treatments there. So far, according to her rendition, she has lived well beyond her initial prognosis and without the prescribed chemotherapy.
That's HER story....
As I began to recount my own cancer saga to her and in a very unconscious way, I began with the following introductional phrase, "
When I got MY cancer...."
Well, the Mother In Law stopped me in the middle of my sentence and gently rebuked me by saying,
"NEVER CALL IT YOUR CANCER. Get this idea out of your mind. It is not YOUR cancer. Learn to not own it. I learned this concept from a cancer therapist and it is very good advice."
Well, I was a little taken aback, but I can say that in my initial reaction I did not feel to be in agreement with this concept.
Not wanting to shake her faith, I did not at that time reply, but the idea has since been on my mind and I do not know whether I am right or I am wrong.
I really can't comprehend of the cancer in any other way.
Just thinking out loud.....