@lisman1408- Since Colleen already addressed your discussions with @elizm I will let it be. I will however attest to the fact that many, many people are "clueless" when it comes to knowing anything about their own bodies. Having lung cancer opened up a new vocabulary and "job" for me. By job I mean learning all about my lung cancer, bio of my lungs and the cancer that invaded me. I feel that it is every cancer patient's responsibility and job to learn as much as they can about their cancer. Knowledge is power and there is a huge sense of loss of power when it comes to having cancer. I mean, we turn our whole life over to the insurance and medical fields- how scaryl is that?
But even so many people chose to hide from knowing everything that there is so that they can separate themselves from reality, that of having cancer. I found that the more I learned the less tension that I found during my doctor's appointments because I was a better patient and he was a better doctor.
Any ideas how we can open up other people's minds to learning more?