You’re taught in school that cancer is a collection of uncontrollable abnormal cells but learn that it’s more than that. It’s the aggressive chemo, the constant doctors appointments, and most importantly the battle to live. I began my sophomore year as any other normal student, but as September came my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer. Cancer is life changing and even though it’s terrible you can learn great life lessons from it.
When I found out my mom was diagnosed it didn’t feel true, she looked and acted healthy, so how could she be “sick”. I was pretty quiet about it and only told a couple of my friends, I tried to just push it off and continue with my life as normally as I could. My mom began appointments with her oncologist which lead to surgery to remove the lump of cancer cells. After her surgery, she began radiation twice a day for a week. It still didn’t feel true that this was actually happening. After test results coming back showing her form of cancer was very aggressive they decided on plans for chemo. They planned eight rounds of chemo for every other week
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Her immune system was very weak she was no longer able to go anywhere where there would be a crowd. As show choir season began I realized my mom wouldn’t be able to attend my competitions. It felt very different not to look out into the crowd and see her. This is when it all began to feel so true. As she finished her first half of her treatments and move on to the second kind of chemo she experienced side effects. I began to notice her often having bone pain and feeling sick. She also caught a cold which delayed her treatments for another week. When she finally reached her last treatment. I was so excited to see the end of her treatments, I surprised her by showing up to her last treatment and bringing her flowers. The joy of that moment will always remind me that there is always a reward after a good
The one horrific thing about cancer is that I never knew when the timer would run out on me-or how I would cope with it. Finding out my grandmother had cancer instantly hurt me almost as much as it did to say goodbye.-it felt like the beginning to and end all too quick. It all started in the hospital with chemotherapy,
... of the treatment methods that I previously mentioned. She also put a great deal of effort into resisting treatment, which in my research I found is actually fairly common. Several studies reported that, although symptom remission could be obtained for 27% of patients within 4 weeks and 45% within 5 years following treatment initiation, 20– 30% of patients reached a treatment-resistant status on the other side. (Kanahara, et al., p. 1)”
A few months ago, she was diagnosed with leukemia and has been receiving Chemotherapy. The doctors have confessed that the Chemo has not had any impact, and found a donor match for a bone marrow transplant.
As I stood at her bedside, my mind flashed back to how it happened. Before, I never thought a phone call could change someone’s life. I found out a few months ago, on a late sunday night. I remember her saying she had it. When I asked what she had, her voice grew silent and she whispered one word. Lauren had cancer.
When she learned she had Cancer, she organized herself into a one-woman battle squad. Anyone who knew my mother knows that sitting down and letting the sickness take over was just not in her. She took the eighteen month prognosis they gave her , smiled, and threw it out the window. Shortly after her diagnosis,...
Her warm smile, caring nature, and outgoing attitude would never make you think that she has been fighting against chronic illness for over two decades. In school she acts as a mentor helping other students, and oftentimes the only time that her illness comes up in conversation is when classmates go out together and eat, because Cindy can only eat certain foods. Although she never lets her diseases rule her life, and always remains positive, she recalls the person she used to be, someone with energy and drive, in her mind she is still that same person, but that isn’t who she gets to be anymore. She doesn’t talk much about her childhood, only alluding that it wasn’t the most positive one. Before her diagnosis she recalls being scared to death, having anxiety because she was sure her diagnosis would be cancer, and knowing that there was no way she could die because she couldn’t stand the thought of leaving her daughter behind. Cindy began to feel as if she was in denial. Every day she had so little energy that even getting out of bed and to the bathroom in the morning sapped most of her energy. Meanwhile she had to still take care of her nine month old daughter because her husband refused to stay home and help. Her daily struggle with energy, joint pain, and malnourishment continued on until her daughter was three. Since she was so sure her symptoms were the
Cancer is a very large issue in the world. Cancer is a sickness that can lead to many life threatening problems and can eventually lead to death. There are many different kinds of cancer that can effect a person without them even knowing it is there. One type of cancer that can be easier to detect would be skin cancer. Skin cancer can be diagnosed by seeing a doctor or dermatologist, if they see an abnormal mole or spot on your skin, they many ask to remove the spot and test it in their laboratory. If the spot or mole comes back positive for skin cancer, they next will run more tests to see if it has spread throughout the body. The first thing the doctor will ask you is the time frame from when you first started noticing this on your body,
There are more than a million people suffer from cancer in the United States every day. Lung cancer is not the only type of cancer but it affects many people and families every day. Lung cancer makes the lives of its patients and the families. Lung cancer is one of the deadliest types of cancer and also one of the most common. Hundreds of thousands of people get diagnosed with lung cancer every year in just the United States. Also close to just as many people die from lung cancer in the US every year. I am going to talk about lung cancer and what it is, how to lower your risk of getting it, statistics of it, and the research and treatment of it.
My great aunt has been diagnosed with terminal cancer, and she acts as if nothing is wrong. This must be unusual for a person in her situation.
Breast cancer is one type of cancer that has been in my family. One of my family members that had it, is dear and close to my heart. She fought for the longest time to keep getting better through all the chemo and the radiation that she went through to get rid of the cancer. She fought and fought, but she received treatments and was getting better for a while. When she was going through the treatments, if I or anyone in my family were sick and wanted to go see her, we had to wear a mask, so that we would not get her sick. We had to wear the masks because her immune system was not where it was before and could not fight off an illness as fast as it was once able to. She was getting back to her normal self and doing more for a while. Then she just became
Sonya Rose Atkinson, diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of thirty nine, is currently battling hereditary breast cancer now at the age of forty. “I’m climbing the highest mountains to survive, with many challenges along the way. I’m remaining strong and carrying on…” (Surviving Cancer). Her advice to new patients is to take one day at a time and to find your inner strength. Her one wish to everyone is for them to know was “How beautiful he or she is.” (Surviving Cancer).
Each day was, and still is, a hard, frustrating and stressful time. This incurable disease has had a dramatic effect over the years starting when I was in kindergarten. I remember when my mother started using a cane so she wouldn't fall when she walked. She could still work, drive, and go on outings with me, her only daughter. In the beginning I didn't know how to grasp it all but I gradually understood a little more each day.
...e the cancer and look for the positives in the prognosis and treatment find encouragement for the future. There are various models and theories such as health belief model that are used to explain ones belief on risks and associated risks of a chronic illness and then there are theories such as Crisis theory when dealing with shock when diagnosed with a chronic illness and gate control theory when looking at pain and the psychological issues around dealing with pain. However even with various theories and models trying to explain crisis, pain and compliance to treatment the outcome and understanding and ultimately the way an individual deals with a chronic illness such a breast cancer falls very much down to self-efficacy and the belief the individual holds towards the illness itself the attitude and perception in the outcome of the illness, treatment and beyond.
Even talking about cancer can be scary. Those who have never been told “you have cancer”, will never really understand the weight of those words. Whether it is operable, treatable, or otherwise, being diagnosed with cancer means that your life is about to change dramatically. The information in the following article is meant to help you deal with those changes in a way that makes them more tolerable and less destructive.
She began to suffer from hair and weight loss as well as the color change of her skin. My mind began to intersect with thoughts of her dying from cancer. I decided negativity would no longer control my thoughts; I had a grandmother who needed me to be strong and think positive about her condition, regardless of the situation and her physical changes. During the time of my grandmother chemotherapy treatments, I would miss school to attend her appointments. As a sophomore in high school, I could only miss a small amount of days before any negative effects displayed toward my grades. Therefore, I would miss school every Tuesday and Thursday for the next four months of my first semester of tenth grade. I didn’t mind because my grandmother meant the world to me and I would have done it a thousand times, if I was given the