Crazy, Sexy Cancer---really????

This post is written with the newbies in mind, but maybe others can relate:
When I was dx in 2009, I read just about every inspirational cancer book I could find. There was something good (in some cases if I looked hard enough) from each of these books, but the rah-rah-rah really got to me, especially when the cold, hard, brutal treatments began.
What made it easier for me was realizing that is was going to very difficult, but by slogging along, I COULD get through it.
On good days I didn't want to go skydiving, or Rocky Mtn. climbing like the country song "Live like you were Dying,"exhorts, I simply wanted to live. For me that meant sitting quietly in the sun with my children and pets, or going for a walk....
One of my favorite get-well cards read on the front, "Someday you'll look back at all of this...." and on the inside, "And say, 'Well, that sucked!'"
Point being is that it is hard...anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something. But you can get through it.
One step at a time~
Stage 3 rectal, now NED, mother of 7-year-old identical twins, wife, mother, friend and general all around bad influence.