 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | Hi Mandi,
What you are experiencing are the stages of grief!
It is normal to grieve when anything in your life if altered, not just when people die. It is normal to grieve for the life that you had before cancer came into it. We, and probably everyone on this site, understand your pain. Stages of grief include denial, sorrow, bargaining, anger
and finally acceptance. You can be operating on several different levels of these simultaneously and they don't neccessarily happen in order. My wife recently started counseling to deal with it and is finding a little relief. Hang in there - you'll eventually find acceptance. And maybe a support group in the meantime to get through the rough spots.
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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