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Newly diagnosed and scared

Head & Neck Cancer | Last Active: 13 hours ago | Replies (21)

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@cmickelson15

When I was diagnosed many many people offered up all sorts of help from logistical to spiritual. And when we asked people for help they were there in a heartbeat. Accept help and support from others. In addition to helping you get things done, it is so heartening!

I agree with what others say. Let your care team be experts at what they do. And control what you can control which is mindset and lifestyle, doing your lymphedema management and swallow therapy, etc. You may like the free program called Anti Cancer Lifestyle Program. I’m doing that program now. Even though I am generally familiar with the content, the reminders it gives me help me live the way I want to live to heal.

Also, live day by day. Don’t dwell on what tomorrow may bring, how long treatments are, how long they’ve been. You can always accept and manage and even embrace the current moment. Trying to deal with the whole journey all the time is too much. Mindfulness
Practices really helped me with this.

For me, it helped me to accept that this is my life now and I just need to live it the best I can.

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Thank you.