What Is Your Least Favorite Saying People Say/said To You Through Your Diagnosis Or Treatment?

Definitely what I called mine 😂😂 going to make it into a pendant.

August 20th i got a double knee surgery to fix osteo necrosis caused by chemo.

The fun never ends for your local cancer patient.

Well, almost 6 weeks have gone by since my surgery date and I'm in less pain. But after 6 weeks of not being allowed to bend my knees at all are put any pressure I fear that the worst is yet to come in relevance to pain.

Next week going for X-rays. So it's going to determine if the surgery helped or if it was all for naught. What physio will look like.

My goal is to be walking by Christmas. Fi gets very much crossed.

from this ask polly

Bro. All to true.

This was definitely the case during treatment. I always felt like I was comforting others more than they were comforting me.

Yeah I’m okay but like in a “if someone hugged me for too long I would start crying” kind of way

So proud of my mother for doing her own research after I sent her that meme. A sign she hung in her car window.

WHEN CANCER MUGGLES TRY TO SAY HOW YOURE ONE OF GODS BRAVEST SOLDIERS

August 20th i got a double knee surgery to fix osteo necrosis caused by chemo.

The fun never ends for your local cancer patient.

Reading one of my favorite authors books this quote was one of my favorite because i related to it so deeply. Especially through a cancer diagnosis and treatment.

"When we tell those stories to people in chronic pain, or those with incurable illness, we often end up minimizing their experience. We end up expressing our doubt in the face if their certainty, which only compounds the extent to which pain separates the person experiencing it from the wider social order. The challenge and responsibility of personhood, it seems to me, is to recognize personhood in others - to listen to others pain and take it seriously, even when you yourself cannot feel it. The capacity for listening, i think, really does separate human life from the quasi-life of an enterovirus."

-John Green

'The Anthropocene Reviewed