Post by rainbow on Jan 22, 2015 11:08:11 GMT
Hi everyone,
I would just like to describe to you how I felt the moment I was told, "You have cancer".
After weeks of tests and a biopsy, I had an appiontment to see an oncologist. I should state that I was 95% certain I would be told it was cancer, but there is always that little area of doubt, that little voice saying, "You might be wrong. But when I heard my oncologist say, "I'm sorry but the results of the biopsy show you have prostate cancer", it hit like a hammer blow. There it was now, in big bold letter and there was no longer any roon for doubt.
At that point, my mind went into overdrive. My first thoughts were, "I must get all those little jobs done I've started and never finnished, and tidy up my will". As the mili-seconds flashed by, the thoughts got worse and worse. I have three wonderful grandchildren who I love to bits and it suddenly hit me that I might not live to see them grow up, get married and start a family of their own and the worse still, my wife might become a widow. During this time, my oncologist was still talking to me and allthough I was hearing her, I had a job to remember what she had said afterwards.
Cancer has such a fearsome reputation, that we immediatly think of it as a death sentance. Our brains have still not registered the fact that these day 50% of people survive cancer. Having made such a good recovery however, it is almost like I have been given a new life, one which I am determined to enjoy to the full. I truley believe I am a better person and one who appreciate the simple little things in life that so many of us take for granted, Rainbow
I would just like to describe to you how I felt the moment I was told, "You have cancer".
After weeks of tests and a biopsy, I had an appiontment to see an oncologist. I should state that I was 95% certain I would be told it was cancer, but there is always that little area of doubt, that little voice saying, "You might be wrong. But when I heard my oncologist say, "I'm sorry but the results of the biopsy show you have prostate cancer", it hit like a hammer blow. There it was now, in big bold letter and there was no longer any roon for doubt.
At that point, my mind went into overdrive. My first thoughts were, "I must get all those little jobs done I've started and never finnished, and tidy up my will". As the mili-seconds flashed by, the thoughts got worse and worse. I have three wonderful grandchildren who I love to bits and it suddenly hit me that I might not live to see them grow up, get married and start a family of their own and the worse still, my wife might become a widow. During this time, my oncologist was still talking to me and allthough I was hearing her, I had a job to remember what she had said afterwards.
Cancer has such a fearsome reputation, that we immediatly think of it as a death sentance. Our brains have still not registered the fact that these day 50% of people survive cancer. Having made such a good recovery however, it is almost like I have been given a new life, one which I am determined to enjoy to the full. I truley believe I am a better person and one who appreciate the simple little things in life that so many of us take for granted, Rainbow