@angiemal it is trite and easier to day than do, but it does "go on the back burner."

A few months before my cancer diagnosis one of my kids was hit by a car while walking in the city. ICU for a month, rehab inpatient for a month, outpatient rehab. To be honest I barely noticed my cancer. The hospital alternated my mastectomies and my child's brain procedures so I could take care of them. Even now, when I recount that year, I forget my cancer.

I don't recommend that as a way to put it on the back burner, however! For most of us, time alone does that.