When I was first diagnosed with this mean, nasty, ugly cancer (as Arlo Guthrie might say), I went to bed for quite awhile, scrunched into a fetal position and metaphorically sucking my thumb. I rea…
So I went to see my psychiatrist the other day. This is true, I really did, and I’m sure some of you are thinking, “Oh,And it’s true that I have issues that could be delved into at great depth, but I actually go see a shrink to get drugs. There are certain medications I take that only a headshrinker can prescribe.This particular shrink actually specializes in treating people with cancer.
I was telling this to the psychiatrist last week, and he said he had something to show me. He turned his computer around and showed me a chart of cancer survival rates. What does this mean to you? It means you’re stuck with me for quite some time to come. Sorry about that. You might want to send a sympathy card – to my boss.
In those early days, I had doctors who seemed uninterested in trying very hard to save me, as if they had already written me off as a hopeless case. When I read up on the statistics, I couldn’t help but agree with them. And I discovered that I had to keep traveling for the sake of my mental health, even though it was hard. I brought my young adult son, Cheetah Boy, along to haul my suitcase, and we went places, even though I was sometimes too sick to do much but look out the window. It was still better than sitting in my recliner at home.when my attitude changed, and I can’t explain why.
And then I talked to a minister who warned me that I could only have 10 people at my service, due to COVID. And that was that. If I couldn’t have the funeral I wanted, I wasn’t going.
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