I am in the period between diagnosis and waiting for treatment to start and I am feeling very nervous and anxious. Any advice?
Hi again SongofSongs …… I think you were aiming to post this in our dedicated Lung Cancer support group. Doing this connects you with people who totally understand where you are at at the moment.
Do follow this link > Lung Cancer and put up a post in the group.
From my experience with living with and being treated for an incurable blood cancer for over 24 years…… during these in between times you are a passenger, try and do things you enjoy doing and try not to focus on this 24/7……. In reality you are basically a passenger during cancer journey so try and focus on the view (the good stuff that surrounds us) and leave the driving and stress to your medical team.
I learned very early on that I could throw ALL the worry and stress I could collect in the world at each situation and all this effort would actually make no difference what’s so ever to what I was told and what may happen in the future....... but will have a big effect on how I will mentally deal with it ‘if’ it comes along. park the stress, worry when you actually have something concrete to worry about and look to do things that you enjoy.
My amazing Specialist Cancer Nurse of many years was blunt and honest and I did appreciate this and went is came to the anxiety of waiting for results and scans she told me…… The ‘cancer anxiety train’ is always sitting in the station....... but we can only get on it if we go to the ticket office and get a ticket....... don’t go in the queue and get a ticket…… go into another queue for something that you enjoy and that will distract you…… you can throw all the stress and anxiety you can must up at this but the only thing it will do is make your stress and anxiety worse and then you get sick”
PS - I do love your community name.
