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Anniversary of My Cancer

Marty36
Marty36 CSN Member Posts: 84
in Head and Neck Cancer #1
Today is my birthday . . . and the official diagnosis of my cancer. I am very fortunate to have an essay published on the website "The Good Men Project." Many of you will be able to relate.

http://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/the-anniversary-of-my-cancer
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  • hawk711
    hawk711 CSN Member Posts: 566
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    Marty
    I liked your article. You seem to have a great attitude to handle all this "new normal" stuff that comes our way. Glad to hear you are such a young looking 48 year old. I seem to have aged by a few years as a result of this, I'm 60 now, 57 when it all started. Good luck to you as you progress along the healing timeline.
    All the best,
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  • hawk711
    hawk711 CSN Member Posts: 566
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    Marty
    I liked your article. You seem to have a great attitude to handle all this "new normal" stuff that comes our way. Glad to hear you are such a young looking 48 year old. I seem to have aged by a few years as a result of this, I'm 60 now, 57 when it all started. Good luck to you as you progress along the healing timeline.
    All the best,
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  • Skiffin16
    Skiffin16 CSN Member Posts: 8,305 Member
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    Birthday..
    Congrats, making it another year....
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  • phrannie51
    phrannie51 CSN Member Posts: 4,716
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    Merry Anniversary!!
    ...and many, many more!!

    I liked your article a lot...very self-depreciating...considering this treatment isn't for the faint of heart...you were acctually as good of a cancer patient as anyone.

    p
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  • longtermsurvivor
    longtermsurvivor CSN Member Posts: 1,842 Member
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    hawk711 said:

    Marty
    I liked your article. You seem to have a great attitude to handle all this "new normal" stuff that comes our way. Glad to hear you are such a young looking 48 year old. I seem to have aged by a few years as a result of this, I'm 60 now, 57 when it all started. Good luck to you as you progress along the healing timeline.
    All the best,

    That about sums it up
    Thanks for directing me to this. Happy birthday. I was just thinking the same thing about steak. I ate a sausage and an egg this morning. That was it for solid food for today. The rest will be liquid calories. My wife still feels guilty eating in my presence. I wish she'd get over that.


    Pat
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  • Hondo
    Hondo CSN Member Posts: 6,636 Member
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    Hi Marty

    Glad to be alive and able to have an anniversary for anything. I really enjoyed reading your story and I am like you my goal too is to have decades of anniversaries and enjoy life as much as I can. God bless you my friend and have a wonderful and happy anniversary.

    Hondo
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  • Irishgypsie
    Irishgypsie CSN Member Posts: 333
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    Cheers!!!
    Marty, happy Anniversary with many more to come!!






    I love what you stated below; it's exactly how I felt, still feel! Why do people think that once they/we are diagnosed with cancer they have to run a marathon or go on some zen like/Buddhist experience and spiritual transformation! I thought I was a pretty decent guy before cancer; i didn't need a life altering, post-traumatic experience to make me appreciate life. I just want my life back!!!


    "I have to stop at this point and admit I’m probably not very good at being a cancer patient. I don’t want to participate in walks or raise money to cure cancer. I don’t want to be a fighter. I don’t want to go to support groups or be one of those people who found great meaning in having cancer. As my therapist said in our first session, my primary revelation from having cancer may be that it sucks and that I’ve had a really awful year".

    Charles :)
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