Two days ago, I went to Salisbury Hospital for the results of a recent TRUS and biopsy. There it was - locally-advanced prostate cancer. I absorbed the news, accepted the information given to me and made an appointment for an MRI scan. It was just like going shopping! OK, so I drove home and opened a bottle of wine - but where is the panic, where are the emotions?
I have read several blogs here - I only joined last night - and, while I relate to some of the things because I now carry the Cancer label, I don't feel .........different. Why not?
One reason might be because it is 'only' prostate cancer - from what I have read, one of the least evil of the cancers. Is that it? Mine isn't as serious as other people's? Is that why I don't feel anything?
The MRI is on the 16th - maybe I'll feel different after that.
FormerMember
I think it's normal for you to feel like that. I don't think it really hit me that I had cancer until I'd finished all of my treatment and had no Hospital appointments for a month! It was a really strange feeling, I guess while I was going through it I was just concentrating on getting through it and once I had, I started to actually think about what had actually happened. If that makes sense? Everyone is different though, that's just how I felt.
Digger long may you remain calm you should approach it in just this way. When I was diagozed terminal i thought i would go ballistic but no, calmness is the way i am going to take it all. Just try to be calm mate, there are no rules, no set crying times, no set panicking times just simply no set rules. Take care matey and God Bless from Ricky (Pollensarick)
When I was first diagnosed in feb this year, I went through a stage of anger, disbelief, fear, and too young to die yet!! I was diagnosed with advanced stage 4 kidney cancer, I didn't even have any symptoms as such, I just had the lymphs in my neck poke out!! It kicked off from there!! I'm now a bit calmer, I have had the kidney removed and have started chemo and interferon, I do not feel different as such being a person now labled with cancer, but more accepting of my disease, I know there are a lot of us out there, but realise that we can all comfort each other as we all have something in common!! Please try and stay positive, it will help you get through the months ahead!! Take care Jill
hi there ,i understand what you are saying i also reacted in that way when diagnosied with breast cancer . the only time i began to feel that i had cancer was when i lost my hair & others could then tell ,even though i had ,had a bilateral mastectomy. my thoughts were mainly about how my kids would cope with it & the rest of my family. i have since though been through alsorts of emotions . i also think cancer is cancer no matter which kind it is . it is good to be calm though but try not to bottle up feelings when they come talk to people explain how you feel or come on here & write a blog . i think when treatment starts it will become more real .take care love theresa xx
