“I was given fluid and another blood transfusion, after which I felt like I could conquer the world! This process would become my normal: chemo, get horribly sick, trip to Assessment, fluid, blood transfusion, feel better.”
Source: Cancer Is for Older People: How Young Minds Beat an Old Disease
“I never let anyone see me cry or feel sorry for myself. Attitude and the will to live is so important during and after treatment that if you don't have a good attitude or a strong will to live, treatment doesn't work.”
Source: Cancer Is for Older People: How Young Minds Beat an Old Disease
“We are the crazy, cool cancer misfits trying to find our way after the terrible trauma of treatment. We are everywhere. We are a tribe without even knowing it.”
Source: The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment
“Free Your Mind
Be mindful of negativity
Negative thoughts become obsessions
Obsessions become deep emotions
Emotions become painful
Pain becomes cancerous to the body
Free the mind from poison”
Source: Island Mindfulness: How to Use the Transformational Power of Mindfulness to Create an Abundant Life
“Grace is most clearly seen in a heart that remains gentle where life has sought to harden it.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“Those of us who have been through cancer know that surviving treatment isn’t where the cancer journey ends. In fact, for many of us, this is where the hardest part of the journey begins.”
Source: The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment
“For some of us, the hardest part of the cancer journey is surviving life AFTER treatment, the doctor tells us we should return to our lives and put the experience of cancer behind us but going through treatment fundamentally changes you forever and it’s impossible to go back to the life we knew before.”
Source: The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment
“Having cancer, fighting cancer, and beating cancer have been THE defining events in my life, and though it was the most terrifying, I know that it has changed me for the better, forever.”
Source: Cancer Is for Older People: How Young Minds Beat an Old Disease
“Fighting the disease is hard enough, even when you are completely focused on just that. Extra time and effort spent worrying about the situation can be detrimental to your body's physical health.”
Source: Cancer Is for Older People: How Young Minds Beat an Old Disease
“Cancer represents a very specific, emotional uniqueness of your body failing you, generally through no fault of your own. But please know that no matter how hard or bad you believe your situation to be, there is somebody out there who's got it worse.”
Source: Cancer Is for Older People: How Young Minds Beat an Old Disease