dana jennings, who has been writing a blog in the new york times about his prostate cancer experience, has posted a very moving article about Losing a Comforting Ritual: Treatment, which expresses exactly how i'm feeling. i'm glad treatment is almost over, but it's going to be such an adjustment to live without it.
today i got a taste of what dana is talking about, because i couldn't go to radiation because the machine was down for the day. it felt very odd at 1:30 not to leave for the hospital. suddenly it really felt like summer! a whole day of free time! i imagined this feeling for the rest of summer and all winter and all next year and beyond. i think i'm going to like it.
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
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Its funny but I thought about that today. What will it be like not to have treatment? Mind you, my treatment will go on for another 18 months with herceptin but it will be weird to feel normal again
i completely relate to this. after my accident, I spend 4 months in hospital/rehab centre and they had to kick me out because I was so scared to be again in the big world without the protection of the medical staff and the routine, physiotherapy 3 times a day...
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