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Life After Cancer: Do you feel prepared for it?
Cancer: Managing Symptoms | Last Active: May 2, 2022 | Replies (19)Comment receiving replies
Life after cancer is not our true life. I have/had SCLC. Did my chemo & radiation. I was told I am in remission the first week of August. I was on a "high" for about a week. I was soo thin , had no hair,I was so weak I couldn't even go to the store. Fast forward to now. I look pretty good but I am in constant pain (CIPN) I and dizzy from the different medications. My only saving grace is the pain medication that makes me feel almost normal for about 2 hours. I can now shop for about 1 to 1.5 hrs. Go to the park and enjoy my family. BUT in the back of my mind cancer is always lurking in the shadows. I don't know if I will ever be "normal" or if this is the "new normal" for me. Yes I am so happy I am in remission but well see above. God Bless you and I do smile so try that. Oh I forgot I cry a lot. At babies ,puppies, & beautiful flowers. I just cry.
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I think we all have to find our "new normal" but no one ever prepared me for that. It seems so naive of me when I look back on it. It just never occurred to me that what I considered my normal would be no more once this journey began. I just wish practitioners were more forthcoming with that information. I know everyone is different and we could have the same cancer but entirely different journeys. I just think there needs to be some sort of discussion whether it be with the physicians or a therapist that specializes in these sorts of issues, the discussion needs to take place so that no one begins this journey thinking they can get through the challenges and come out on the other side with their "old normal" waiting on them. Things will be different. Those changes may last a few months or be lifelong. And we should all be prepared for that.