WHO'D HAVE THOUGHT IT?

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It is 19 days since my turbt yet it feels like months. I'm not complaining, I like the feeling. My partner and I have achieved more togetherness and instead of this good thing flying past I have time to enjoy it. I suppose I used to run around doing all sorts of meaningless things that no longer have any importance and I fail to see why I thought they did. I guess my priorities have changed. I now spend more time on my family and my dog or looking at cloud formations to find fluffy animals or tending my plants that are doing so well this year. Cleaning has taken a back seat - apart from the necessary, cooking has become such a pleasure but now the washing up can wait. I feel freed from all the self-inflicted things I just 'HAD' to do. This cancer thing has made me realise what life is really about. It is not money, things or appearance, it's about family and love. So the cancer has done me a favour in a sense. Who'd have thought it?

Caz

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  • FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Totally agree. Sad that it takes something so rubbish to have that epiphany 

  • FormerMember
    FormerMember

    I totally agree, I was diagnosed with Bowel cancer in October, had Bowel resection in January now have peritoneal cancer and life is great, like you I have never been closer to wife and family, I walk miles with my dog and enjoy a kind of semi retirement. Sure I have lethargy days but I have learned to accept those. You've no idea how glad I am to find someone else positive on here as so many stories are negative or sad, I stopped reading them. Well done and keep it up!! Thank you 

  • FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Thank you to you guys for posting these messages.....when my hubby was diagnosed with terminal cancer way back in 2014, my best friend or BFF was diagnosed with breast cancer and another really good friend with bowel cancer (they say things come in 3's).

    It really does make you think what and who is important to you.

    probably like you guys, I've wept more tears than fills an ocean....

    Your words just made me 'see' things clearly again.

    Thankyou xx

  • could not agree more with this , when i was diagnosed with b/c in 2013 i felt the world i had known had gone forever , i was right the world i now live in is so much  better so much more real , i now  see life from a complexly different angle ,i now know what is important   and it sure isn't money and possessions , having cancer has taught me to enjoy every day  

  • FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Thanks guys. I'm glad we all feel the same. It is wonderful to be alive.