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Living with colorectal cancer - Meet others & come say hi
Colorectal Cancer | Last Active: Oct 23, 2023 | Replies (152)Comment receiving replies
@brettb83 @sockwelljames @shilo @michelle74 @dgaravaglia @merpreb
Having been diagnosed with 2 cancers myself within 2 weeks time span. I completely understand the toll it takes on us mentally.
It takes some time to get through the initial SHOCK . I know I went into shock. I couldn't believe what I was being told. Especially since I had zero symptoms. It took a while o go through the Shock stage.
Then I went through the How could this happen stage? I went searching for answers. Thinking about everything I did in life, and everything I put in my mouth. Trying to figure out, what the hell, could I have done to cause me to get 2 cancers. I became obsessed searching for answers. I think I wore myself out doing this? I still have no answers just possible causes.
Then I went to the acceptance stage.Now what would be my best course, to keep these cancers under my control? Do I change my eating habits? Do I work out more? What can I change in my lifestyle to keep me non systematic?
This is the hardest stage for me. Cause I think about how I was before cancer ? I only had 2 bad habits Coffee, and an on and off smoker. I was always watching what I ate before cancer. I worked out 4 days a week. Lifted weights. I was not a junk food eater.
Going through these stages drains you mentally.
It has been slow going getting back to normal, Talking to others like me on Mayo Connect has helped me a lot to calm down. I think also time has helped me to realize I'm going to be Ok.
I try and do things that make me happy. .
Worrying and Stressing over the fact that I have Cancer is draining..
You need get involved go out be around people. Try and take walks and enjoy the little things in life.
I know I find myself doing things I never dreamed of.
Mayo Clinic describes what it takes to cure people.
It is called FAITH, AND HOPE WHICH EQUALS HEALING..
Without Faith there is No Hope and without Hope there are NO Cures to heal.
We all need to Keep Faith which give us Hope, and Hope will Heal us .
This will give us the ability to be Cancer Warriors, of which we already are.. 🙂
God Bless you All...
Jackie
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@travelgirl
Hi Jackie. Thank you for your encouraging and uplifting post and, for me personally, grounding and calming post. I’ve been freaking out recently, as well as going through the stages of bereavement in record time! Having completed treatment for HER2 Positive breast treatment 3 months ago, on 14 February I received a colon cancer diagnosis. After glancing around my consultant’s office in search of a punching bag (unfortunately none!), I asked “what were the odds of that happening?” Apparently, it’s sheer coincidence and bad luck; totally unrelated to my breast cancer. Thankfully, it hasn’t spread to my liver or lungs. However, I won’t know until after my resection surgery on 14 March whether or not the cancer has spread to the lymph nodes and if I’ll have to undergo chemo. Having faith, and fingers crossed, that it hasn’t and I won’t 😊. I beat the breast cancer and I can beat the colon cancer 🤗!
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Hi. I just try to live a normal life while dealing with chemo. I hate it and sometimes which that my cancer would take me . but I also know or pray that a cure or an easier way to deal with my cancer is reachable sometime soon. I pray that everyone could be helped and cancer as we know it would go away.