CANCER DIARY
"Bigger than a Pea"
Tips on Coping with Cancer
 Reflection
4 December Dream Building & Appreciation for Life
5 December  Mammogram Day
6 DecemberBiopsy Day
7 DecemberReflecting
8 DecemberPathology Results
Google Search
10 DecemberRationalising
11 DecemberDecision Making
12 DecemberReflecting on the what if's
13 DecemberSurgery Day Drama
14 DecemberPost Operation
15 DecemberGoing Home
16 DecemberDr Deb Comes to Visit
18 December 19 DecemberLife goes on
Reflection
20 DecemberBest wishes from a friend
21 DecemberTelling Colleagues
22 DecemberMore support from colleagues
27 DecemberLetter to a client
30 December
to 15 January		e-mail dialogue
18 JanuaryTime to meet the surgeon again
21-25 Januarye-mail dialogue and support from family & friends
25 January
26 January
27 January		Chemo Day tomorrow
Chemo Day
The day after Chemo
28 January -
8 February		Chemo 1 of 6
Chemo isn't nice
Coming right
Depression
Feeling great & running
Molting
1 March - 9 MarchArticle in "The Listener" & reader feedback
9 March - 22 MarchHalf Way through the Chemo
28 March - 29 MarchDealing with baldness
30 March4th Chemo Session & drugs
24 AprilSunday Star Times Article - Health Insurance a matter of life and death for small businesses
16 MayLyfords Newsletter - Thank you for your patience & loyalty
24 JuneLife after chemo
  
 

Alison's Breast Cancer Diary
Feelings after diagnosis, surgery, and chemo-therapy

10 December - Rationalising
We have science backgrounds and we think rationally. What stupid statistics they are on "Google".  How can there be a 50% survival rate?  That's just too vague.  How many cancers were detected?  How many women had chemotherapy?  How many took specific drugs after the chemotherapy?  How many had surgery?  We were feeling less worried by Sunday evening. Dumb statistics.

A friend's sister was diagnosed with breast cancer and refused to have surgery to remove it let alone medication.  She believed that if it was God's wish she would accept it.  That woman died within six months of diagnosis.  These sorts of cancer 'non treatments' obviously have an impact on the 50% survival rate statistic.

 

 

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