New Friends

While I wouldn't recommend cancer being the way to find new friends, it has turned out to make me some new friends. Not only in Florida, but Texas and California and England! Today I had lunch with two news friends. On the scale of new, one is new as of July and one is new as of a couple of weeks ago. You know what made us friends, it's that terrible horrible very rotten no good CANCER that made us friends. That is cool I think.

We were talking at lunch about our life having been CANCER lately, having lost our way, or as another friend told me last week at lunch "it's like a new full time job." Absolutely that is true, one of the more wrestling things about cancer.

You have to face the fact that you have cancer and you have to do the things that get rid of the cancer, but you also have to go on about life. That's hard and there is an adjustment period. I think everybody gets it and is respectful of it, but then the people who don't have it have expectations of how (again, this is similar to the "be positive" comments) a cancer patient should act and how their minds should respond to situations. It's like asking a lawyer not to argue or a Dr. not to heal, a cancer patient is going to think about their cancer anytime their brain has an uncommitted moment. So, let us!!!

You can't escape cancer if you try now, I mean it's everywhere. TV shows, football stadiums, runs, malls, magazines, classrooms, the media is incredibly effective at relaying how much support the world has for cancer, and being a cancer patient, this is a wonderful feeling to know that even the NFL players support your cause.

And the other side of that is, cancer is everywhere, it's tough to escape. It is very popular, I sure wish this was one time I wasn't in the "in" group!

I do feel especially close to my cancer friends, and I hope that they are friendships that last a lifetime!! I get my port on Thursday, saw a port today, it did not have the three heads I expected it to have..........:)