Getting back to 'normal'

Hi Bea

Have not got the same cancer as you but I know what you mean.

I look very well and everyone expects me to be the same person I was before dx.

Look forward to the day when I dont wake up or go to sleep with the word cancer on my mind.

Was 60 a few weeks ago so a bus pass for me soon when I get round to it.

Hope I claim my OA pension for many years to come.

Love

Sue  

Hi Bea

Idont know what normal is any more and like you get fed up of people asking how are you ok!. thought it was only me who felt this way .I am in remission at moment and look very well and fit but like Sue i dont go a day without thinking about my cancer .Ijust tell folk I have been given a second chance and intend to enjoy it .Also let them feel my baby hair now its grown back .They just dont uderstand like we do . Do they get well soon and hang in there Alan

I know what you mean but of course people not directly involved assume - you get ill - go to the doctor and a few weeks later you are back to normal.

Each year I work at Music Festivals for charity so last year I was being sent for all sorts of scans for prostate cancer so did mention it to some people but I made it clear it was unlikely I would be given the all clear anytime in 2008.

This year they all presumed I had been given the all clear but seeing I only finished Radiotherapy in March 2009 its a long way to go before I am told officially I am cancer free.

Sure I am a changed person but I never let it dominate me.

Until I get the all clear I will not be back to normal { well as normal as one can get }

Brian