My Cancer Diary
Introduction
I have transferred this diary from my old blog because I thought it might be interesting and helpful for anyone going through what I experienced back in 2015. I began it on Tuesday 20th January 2015, the day after I received my diagnosis. It carried on throughout the year and became a very long page. On this blog I am breaking it down into a page per month, to make it easier to navigate.
“The future is uncertain for us all. Cancer does not define you; it’s how you face it that does.”
“Cancer changes people. It sculpts us into someone who understands more deeply, hurts more often, appreciates more quickly, cries more easily, hopes more desperately, loves more openly and lives more passionately.”
On the recommendation of my friend Shaz, I have decided to follow her example and start a special page on my blog about my cancer journey.
The reasons for this diary
My primary aim is to give myself a platform for setting down in order what happens to me over the coming months. I believe this will help keep my thoughts in order – something which is often hard to do when you suffer from brainfog which is a common M.E. symptom. It will also be an emotional outlet for me, as I try to express my feelings honestly. I would also like humbly to think that it might help others going through the same experience, maybe answering some of their own questions, and to help them realise that they are not alone.
If, as I hope, the initial surgery is sufficient to solve the problem, this diary may be of short duration – which would be the most satisfactory outcome! However, I am realistic enough to know that anything can happen, and I have no idea how long it will take.
Before I begin, some things to remind myself that I stand on a solid foundation.
Romans 8:28: And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.
Romans 8:37: Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
What cancer cannot do
Cancer is so limited…
It cannot cripple love,
It cannot shatter hope,
It cannot corrode faith,
It cannot eat away at peace,
It cannot destroy confidence,
It cannot kill friendship,
It cannot shut out memories,
It cannot invade the soul,
It cannot reduce eternal life,
It cannot quench the spirit,
It cannot lessen the power of the Resurrection.
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