The Hours
Cancer a day to day affair? No, it is more just from hour to hour
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Psychiatrist
“Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody\’s around – nobody big, I mean – except me. And I\’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if
Out of the briar patch
Fighting cancer cells is like fighting a garden full of rabbits – both multiply rapidly and do great damage to any living organs/organisms they come into contact with.
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No difference
“They\’re trying to kill me,\” Yossarian told him calmly. No one\’s trying to kill you,\” Clevinger cried. Then why are they shooting at me?\” Yossarian asked. They\’re shooting at everyone,\” Clevinger answered. \”They\’re trying to kill everyone.\” And what difference does that make?” – Joseph Heller, Catch-22
Books do furnish a (hospital) room
Authors to accompany you on a long hospital visit: Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, PG Wodehouse, William Shakespeare, Terry Pratchett.
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Empathetic
One of the causes, and symptoms, of anxiety is a kind of excessive empathy. An excess that makes it very difficult to read or watch stories of people in trouble or being treated badly or being manipulated. The wait for the climax which sets things right can be unbearable – much worse if, in the name
The C-word
An oncology waiting room is filled with separate worlds, some single, some double, all with their own histories, conditions, treatments, prognoses, worries, side-effects. All separate, far apart, not communicating, different in every respect but the single word that unites them, by chance, in that room.
No dwelling place
I guess the trick of dealing with anxiety is not to dwell on stuff. As Lewis Carroll wrote: I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls, And each damp thing that creeps and crawls went wobble-wobble on the walls…