After quite a fantastic day, I am very pleased with some outcomes. For the first time ever!!! I have felt that I am glad that I am going through this. Today, one of my friend's daughters and I had a very good heart-to-heart. This young lady has been in a state of crisis for some time trying to decide what she wants to do with her barely teen-age life. She did not know about my cancer and I took opportunity to share with her some very bold and brazen things. I have experienced being treated as a leper and an outcast. I have been abandoned by some friends and left to just fare on my own. I have had to rely upon my own resources and have had very difficult and rocky days. Welcome to cancer! Other people's denial has been quite the interesting fact in my life and being faced with telling some people about their job and standing up and doing the right thing is important. I let this young lady know that it is all worth it for her to stop being so "damn stupid". Taking good care of yourself and very important and that to prevent these things is to stop with the stupid lifestyle. We are all beautiful and what we do can take that beauty away. We should not have our beauty taken away.
I am facing loosing my hair and that is an excellent mark for anyone to see if it means that some will learn from it. I have experienced the deepest of angst and anguish in all of this; but, it is all worth it if it means that others will stop being "stupid". I told her that as I begin radiation, I will not be able to touch many people. I may not be able to touch her. I would not be able to touch pregnant women and this just adds to me being treated and being made to feel like a leper.
It is worth it if it means that there are those who will learn and listen.
Pressing on. Pushing on. Teaching on.
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