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The ways others react to news of your prostate cancer
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Aug 22 4:13pm | Replies (45)Comment receiving replies
I think one big thing that effects how others respond is not knowing I have stage 4. That's a show stopper for a conversation. I've only had one conversation with a coworker where I mentioned it, but only after they had said it could get worse. My family knows of course. My thought is that this is my journey, my wife's as well, not theirs. Others have their life to live. Imagine having someone talk about the same thing every day they would run from you. I've said before this site is a blessing, here we can talk about it every day and get support from all. Best to all.
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My prediction (which I hope to live to see confirmed) is that in the future the 2020s will be remembered, not necessarily as the decade when cancer was "cured", but the decade when stage-4 cancer became a long-term chronic disease to manage (like HIV or Parkinson's) rather than the terminal diagnosis that it had been in previous decades.
The article in Scientific American last spring, personal stories here in the forum, and my oncologists' new optimism all suggest we might already there with prostate cancer, but we won't know for sure until researchers have had more years to follow patients and analyse the data.