For anyone that has never been stricken with cancer to even make a suggestion to find a good life to one living with cancer seems almost impossible. Once getting over the initial shock of this devastating disease though there is time to reflect on many of the positive aspects that are still in your life. One of the best ways of finding the good life when in this position is to not allow the cancer to rob you of all those positive aspects that you possess. It must be remembered that the love of your family for example cannot be affected by this disease. Not unless of course you allow it to.
Quite often with individuals that have cancer for several reasons they will begin to close themselves off from the family. Most often this is out of fear of not being able to cope with their emotions when you have so many of your own emotions to deal with. One of the ways of getting past this and becoming much stronger during this ordeal is to include your family in what you feel and what you are going through. Naturally it is a common occurrence to want to remain strong to save them the pain of seeing you suffer. However the suffering can be much less if you will allow them to support you in your time of need. Most often by allowing your family to be part of your ordeal makes them feel that they are at least able to do something by way of comforting you.
Another way to keep your good life going while you are going through this is to try and utilize all of the favorite things that you like to do during those periods of time when you are feeling a little stronger. Try and plan, for example if you enjoy going out for dinner and you are having a relapse or in between treatments make sure that you treat yourself to this type of entertainment.
Ideally what you want to do is to attempt to keep your life as normal as possible. For the rough times try to make them as easy as possible. It is hard to believe that when coping with cancer that you can find anything about life that is good at. this particular time. However every breath of air that you take is good and if that’s all you are able to do at this particular moment it’s still part of the good life.
What this is all meant to tell you is to fight this ravaging disease that is trying to steal not only the health of your body but to take away the good things in life. This is the one thing that you have control over with this cancer. The important thing to do with cancer to stop it from affecting your good life is to certainly not try and put it out of your mind but to place it in the area that it belongs in. It is a concern no doubt but don’t let it overrule seeing your little one smile for example or that telephone call from a friend that’s just touching base with you. Basically what it comes down to is not allowing a cancer to consume your life even though it may be trying to consume a portion of your body.
Saima Sultana – I’m a freelance writer, blogger, and transcriptionist by trade. I’ve written innumerable articles for clients, as well as some two dozen articles for myself. I …