Good morning, @marynoelle. Have you ever been hiking along a trail and find a snake lying in the sun on the path in front of you? For me it was an alligator! No kidding…anyway, I digress.
Our first instinct is usually to freeze in place while our brain quickly assesses what action to take. Flight, fight or freeze! We need a plan to go forward.

I think it’s the same thing when we hear ‘bad news’ from our doctor. We initially mentally freeze in place because we don’t know what’s ahead of us and that fear of the unknown is so powerful. When we learn the facts and arm ourselves with knowledge, it helps us get a plan together to move forward.
Even without a diagnosis of a cancer, we humans only have so much time on the planet. It’s a shame to waste any of the time we have worrying about ‘what if’… I’m guilty of doing that in my younger years, always ‘fearing the worst’ without even knowing what the worst could be! The mind is a powerful story teller! LOL. When I actually did get an aggressive cancer, it was dealt with and I moved on. Now I fear very little because I know if something comes up, I’ll deal with that too. But I’m not going to dwell on worrying about what I don’t know and I’m happy to see you’ve adopted this philosophy too! IF you need treatment in the future then you’ll deal with that at the time. But to worry about it years ahead of time would be robbing you of precious time of enjoying the life you do have.

By the way, with the alligator, it was flight!! 😂 I may fight cancer but I’m not stupid…