After my series about my chemo treatments, I've had inquiries as to how I'm dealing with chemo after effects. That's easy! Like a chicken with its head cut off...
Substack has been recommended to me by a friend though I am very picky about the articles I read - I stay far away from anything political! Your articles are real and I feel your pain and your frustrations! I have not gone thru this myself but know (as with everybody out there) somebody out there dealing with some sort of cancer! My daughter went thru breast cancer and neuropathy affected her as well! I’m sorry for what you are going through - so not fun but your writing tells it like it is! Maybe it is therapy in some sort of way but your articles have my attention! Thank you for being that voice, for sharing your experiences with maybe a little humor along the way! I look forward to your next article!
Thank your for nice comments! For too long the very mention of cancer was done in a very quiet whisper if it was mentioned at all, which was of little help to anyone. I'm a yeller when it comes to cancer. Perhaps you've noticed! Knowledge is power, and I think pulling it out of the shadows is an important first step. And while it's serious business, I think adding a bit of humor makes it more relatable and less scary. And humor has always been part of my life so why would this cancer journey be any different? It definitely has been good therapy for me and, from feedback I've received, for others as well. And I love that. There's comfort in knowing we're not alone in going through this. There's more comfort in knowing that cancer doesn't always win. And here I am to prove it!
Thanks for reading. Hang around. I write about more than just cancer. A little bit of this, a little of that but all with the same approach and vision, as cockeyed as it is.
Argh! I just lost two comments because apparently I am an idiot, but I STILL wanted to let you, Andy, know that your posts are helpful and inspiring! THIS RIGHT HERE!!!: "Really? This is it? This how you’re going to spend the rest of your life all crabby and sullen and laying around like a big turd? Really? This is what you’ve lived for and fought through cancer to be like this? This is how you want life to be? Where’s my happy friend? I want him back. I’m don’t like this new you. I can’t believe you do either."
Substack has been recommended to me by a friend though I am very picky about the articles I read - I stay far away from anything political! Your articles are real and I feel your pain and your frustrations! I have not gone thru this myself but know (as with everybody out there) somebody out there dealing with some sort of cancer! My daughter went thru breast cancer and neuropathy affected her as well! I’m sorry for what you are going through - so not fun but your writing tells it like it is! Maybe it is therapy in some sort of way but your articles have my attention! Thank you for being that voice, for sharing your experiences with maybe a little humor along the way! I look forward to your next article!
Thank your for nice comments! For too long the very mention of cancer was done in a very quiet whisper if it was mentioned at all, which was of little help to anyone. I'm a yeller when it comes to cancer. Perhaps you've noticed! Knowledge is power, and I think pulling it out of the shadows is an important first step. And while it's serious business, I think adding a bit of humor makes it more relatable and less scary. And humor has always been part of my life so why would this cancer journey be any different? It definitely has been good therapy for me and, from feedback I've received, for others as well. And I love that. There's comfort in knowing we're not alone in going through this. There's more comfort in knowing that cancer doesn't always win. And here I am to prove it!
Thanks for reading. Hang around. I write about more than just cancer. A little bit of this, a little of that but all with the same approach and vision, as cockeyed as it is.
Argh! I just lost two comments because apparently I am an idiot, but I STILL wanted to let you, Andy, know that your posts are helpful and inspiring! THIS RIGHT HERE!!!: "Really? This is it? This how you’re going to spend the rest of your life all crabby and sullen and laying around like a big turd? Really? This is what you’ve lived for and fought through cancer to be like this? This is how you want life to be? Where’s my happy friend? I want him back. I’m don’t like this new you. I can’t believe you do either."
Thank you!! "Helpful and inspiring..." I can't even begin to tell you wonderful it is to read that. Thanks so much.
Love you, AndyBug!