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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cfs-file/__key/system/syndication/atom.xsl" media="screen"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xml:lang="en-US"><title type="html">noreen_d&amp;#39;s blog </title><subtitle type="html">noreen_d&amp;#39;s blog </subtitle><id>https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/noreen_d/atom</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/noreen_d" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/noreen_d/atom" /><generator uri="http://telligent.com" version="12.1.2.21912">Telligent Community (Build: 12.1.2.21912)</generator><updated>2008-09-21T09:15:50Z</updated><entry><title>sometimes life is hard</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/noreen_d/posts/sometimes-life-is-hard" /><id>https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/noreen_d/posts/sometimes-life-is-hard</id><published>2008-09-21T08:15:50Z</published><updated>2008-09-21T08:15:50Z</updated><content type="html">People tell me I&amp;#39;m a very positive person and I am. Sometimes though its hard. Found out a while ago that my brother has lung cancer with secondary in brain, wasn&amp;#39;t offered treatment just mild radiotherapy for brain tumour. The family are still very protective of me because of my bout with this disease and I worry for them because having to go through this once was bad enough without having to do it again. Plus our situations are very different I never once thought I would die where he seems very accepting of it. I find it hard to understand how people can just let go so easily. My counsellor says that I should realise that not everyone is as strong as me, but I never felt strong I just plodded through from day to day. I also have a friend who is stuggling with her second bout of breast cancer and feel guilty because I haven&amp;#39;t been to see her. I&amp;#39;m back in uni on Monday and the time just seems to fly. I would ask people reading this, if they can to pray for Michael and Trudi. &lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/aggbug?PostID=218193&amp;AppID=15290&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>Former Member</name><uri>https://community.macmillan.org.uk/members/formermember</uri></author><category term="tumour" scheme="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/noreen_d/archive/tags/tumour" /><category term="secondary" scheme="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/noreen_d/archive/tags/secondary" /><category term="disease" scheme="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/noreen_d/archive/tags/disease" /><category term="Breast cancer" scheme="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/noreen_d/archive/tags/Breast%2bcancer" /><category term="brain" scheme="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/noreen_d/archive/tags/brain" /><category term="radiotherapy" scheme="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/noreen_d/archive/tags/radiotherapy" /><category term="Lung cancer" scheme="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/noreen_d/archive/tags/Lung%2bcancer" /></entry></feed>