 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | I read that "Dear Amy" a week or so ago and had the same experience myself. I made new friends, lost old ones and had some return when they realized that I wasn't going to die. Some of them weren't capable of confronting their own mortality and I had to forgive them for that. The ones that left - I'm not going to chase 'em down!
I was very fortunate that I had a very large extended family to begin with, being an active participant in a church music team and all of my musician community (I'm still friends with people that I performed with back in the 60's).
My wife was a very dedicated caregiver (and still is) and I'm a high maintenance person ;-)
Gary Allsebrook
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Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2
Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy)
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"You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes" (James 4:14 NIV)
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