Psst – It might be better if we don’t talk about it… maybe it will go away.
Well cancer doesn’t quite see it that way. The less you talk about it the nastier it gets. June had this same fear and thought. She didn’t want people to know and she really didn’t want to be the one to tell them! But after that first time, when she said c-a-n-c-e-r out loud it got easier. The more people she told the easier it was to say.
I was so proud of her the first time she told someone in the waiting room. She and another cancer patient had a conversation about their cancer – it was beautiful to see her embrace her situation. The denial was gone. She wasn’t hiding behind the denial and she realized it was hardly hiding her anyway.
What aren’t you talking about?!