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"Welcome back" to your new and improved life, Sue!
PJ Hamel
Saturday, July 25, 2009 at 05:47 AMre: "Welcome back" to your new and improved life, Sue!
sue dyer
Saturday, July 25, 2009 at 06:50 AMBoy, that was quick! We must occasionally be online about the same time. It's evening here and I'm enjoying the luxury of some "me" time while my darling husband is up at the mountains for a couple of days' skiing. Does it seem inconceivable that we can have a summer day when the temperature is about 113℉ and within a few months people are skiing!?
Thanks for your wise words of advice. It always helps talking to someone who has been there already. I plan to keep visiting the website. It's one of the ways I can fulfil the obligation I feel to give something back.
Sorry about all the rants re your health system. I just get so angry when I read posts and questions from women who can't afford to have Herceptin. In my student days I joined the anti-war movement and was an expert at filling in fake draft forms. I almost got arrested once protesting against apartheid when the South African rugby team was playing in Melbourne and smuggled smoke bombs into the ground by hiding them in the crutch of my jeans! I guess I've never lost that evangelical sense of trying to right wrongs. Blame it on my mum. I learned it from her.
Love and best wishes to you PJ, my cancer friend. Enjoy your weekend.
Sue
re: re: "Welcome back" to your new and improved life, Sue!
PJ Hamel
Saturday, July 25, 2009 at 06:59 AMThanks, Sue - yes, it's 6:55 a.m. here, I'm about to head out to the gym. The sun is starting to peek through gray clouds - we've had the rainiest, grayest summer ever. Unbelievable amounts of rain and clouds. All the veggies are spluttering, the flowers are drooping and rotting. Only the slugs are happy!
I never thought of skiing + Australia. But of course - every continent has mountains somewhere. Even if, as you say, it's a quick leap from 113°F to freezing.
Glad to hear you wer a protester, back in the day. I did some campaigning for various causes myself, about a million years ago. Never got up the nerve to take over the college president's office and occupy it, but as a photographer for the school paper, I was at least there to document it!
Glad you'll keep oosting here, Sue. You are now an official Wise Survivor! Thanks for sharing. And - have a relaxing rest-of-the-weekend. XXX PJ
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Kudos to you
chloeandspencer12
Tuesday, August 25, 2009 at 11:40 PMJust wanted to applaud you on your positive outlook and getting to where you are today. Take care of yourself and those you love.
Cheers,
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Yes, cancer does change you, doesn't it? I like to think for the better, in many ways. The intensified feelings fade, though not completely, as you surmise. I've tried to hold onto that appreciation for life - and I think I have. I definitely don't "sweat the small stuff" like I used to; little things like being delayed by traffic don't bother me anymore.
Glad you're feeling better physically, and I hope that continues to improve, too. It's a transition - away from your cancer friends, towards your other life - but I've found it's comforting to keep some of your cancer friends, if you can. I've gathered an email list of about 35 women who've gone through cancer treatment here at our local hospital over the years since I went through mine, and a rotating dozen or so of us meet for drinks the first Friday of each month. Since more women (women in active treatment) are constantly joining, it's a chance for us "veterans" to help the new ones through it. We laugh, complain, drink margaritas, and generally enjoy that camaraderie survivors can only feel with one another.
Thanks for so many good posts, Sue - I hope you stay connected here, and continue to let everyone know how you're doing - and to continue to set us straight on our health care "system"!
PJH