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| Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 10,507 Likes: 7 Administrator, Director of Patient Support Services Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | Administrator, Director of Patient Support Services Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 10,507 Likes: 7 | Congrats on the good check up! Im so glad your doc reassured you. It must have been a good one for you to advance to every 8 weeks.
We all worry when it comes that time. Its very difficult to change a life long habit. I was a single mom raising my children without anyone's help so I was a planner, I always worried about everything. But I have learned how to cope with it after wasting so much time being upset.
Worry will steal your time from you. It will make you immobile where all you can do is sit around and focus on "what if". That wont change a darn thing. It took me until my 3rd round to overcome my fears and worries. On my low days, I would force myself to go out and do things with my family. It just hit me one day that if I wouldnt get thru it that I had wasted so much of my time. I decided that I was not going to be remembered as one who sat around thinking "what if". I was going to get out there and live life to the best of my abilities.
I hope you will one day be able to move past worrying. It takes lots of practice. ChristineSCC 6/15/07 L chk & by L molar both Stag I, age44 2x cispltn-35 IMRT end 9/27/07 -65 lbs in 2 mo, no caregvr Clear PET 1/08 4/4/08 recur L chk Stag I surg 4/16/08 clr marg 215 HBO dives 3/09 teeth out, trismus 7/2/09 recur, Stg IV 8/24/09 trach, ND, mandiblctmy 3wks medicly inducd coma 2 mo xtended hospital stay, ICU & burn unit PICC line IV antibx 8 mo 10/4/10, 2/14/11 reconst surg OC 3x in 3 years very happy to be alive | | |
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