It needs to be okay to die.

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  • AliceBastable
    AliceBastable Member Posts: 3,461
    edited May 2021

    Rumor (and Beesie and anyone else who just got similar news), CONGRATULATIONS! YOU DON'T HAVE CANCER!!! As someone who has heard "Sorry, you have cancer" a few too many times, I am DELIGHTED for you, as you should be for yourselves. Now grab your life back from the fear has been holding it hostage and have fun!

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  • edj3
    edj3 Member Posts: 2,076
    edited May 2021

    Runor, I think you're right re figuring out the dead part in order to fully live. I read something along those lines years ago, that until we are fully good with dying, we can't live. And for me, that makes sense.

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  • Nikko1963
    Nikko1963 Member Posts: 14
    edited November 2021

    I am just beginning this cancer journey. I can only hope to have Moth's courage and bad ass attitude! She is already an inspiration and I was just diagnosed yesterday.

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  • wallycat
    wallycat Member Posts: 3,227
    edited December 2021

    I stumbled on this thread but had to read it to completion. I am a wait-n-see for life and also need to learn to "be."

    People's Pharmacy had an interesting post...a doc that studies "miracles" and "cures" of inoperable cancers/illnesses. I listened to the audio. He mentioned a website that I am now reading and it is very well written; it is by a lady who was told she had months to live with pancreatic cancer. Fast forward to her 5 years and no visible cancer. If anyone is interested, it is entitled 'livingwithpancreaticcancer dot com' and you can find it as I don't feel I should be posting it for some reason. It is refreshing. It is helping me 'learn to die.'

    The best to any of you in this situation and may it never be the C word.


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  • trinigirl50
    trinigirl50 Member Posts: 343
    edited January 2022

    Cancer diagnoses = existential crisis. I don't care much for an existential crisis so after being thrown headlong into one despite my very best effort to ignore, I went through "life without me" in my head, figured that my beloved family would grieve me and then get on with living, which comforted me enormously.

    So now my personal mantra is "don't die before you are actually dying".


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  • Sunshine99
    Sunshine99 Member Posts: 1,680
    edited January 2022

    trinigirl, that's a good one! "Don't die before you're actually dying." I'm going to remember and use that one! :)

    If I ask myself the question, "Am I going to die tomorrow?" The answer is, "Possibly, but probably not."

    Carol

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