I have only been diagnosed with breast cancer for 24 days now (who's counting!) and I so understand what this writer, Ann Silberman's blog 'Breast Cancer...But Doctor I hate pink" is saying. It is so hard to stay positive - but what I am going to try my best at is 'Kia Kaha'...thanks to my sister-in-law for that phrase.
"It's awful to tell somebody to think positively. Do you think all those cancer patients who are now dead thought negatively? It's not a good thing to put the burden of our disease on us. .... The one thing you should never do is put the onus of our illness back on us. We didn't cause it by negative thinking, by eating a hotdog when we were 12, by sitting in the sun, or by not exercising. It just happens. I am positive in spirit but that won't cure my cancer. Neither will being negative kill me. It's not my fault. Never deny our reality, whether you agree with it or not. When all else fails, what do you say to a person who has cancer?
"I'm sorry"
"It's awful to tell somebody to think positively. Do you think all those cancer patients who are now dead thought negatively? It's not a good thing to put the burden of our disease on us. .... The one thing you should never do is put the onus of our illness back on us. We didn't cause it by negative thinking, by eating a hotdog when we were 12, by sitting in the sun, or by not exercising. It just happens. I am positive in spirit but that won't cure my cancer. Neither will being negative kill me. It's not my fault. Never deny our reality, whether you agree with it or not. When all else fails, what do you say to a person who has cancer?
"I'm sorry"
