Re: What I learned today!

Nettie

She sounds like a wonderful woman, and hopefully having someone who you can talk to and share inspiration with will help you get through this stuff. I'm sure she went away feeling inspired by you too!

Ali

Mercy wrote:
Today I had to go and get my infusion of iron (same place I get my Rituxan). I will be going every day this week and then Rituxan on July 5th. Then I "think" I might be done for a while. I can only hope.

Anyway, what I learned today is that somebody is always having a more difficult time than one's self. There was a woman there who I have seen since the beginning of my infusions. She is getting the real hard core chemo. She has uterine cancer, as I found out since we struck up a conversation. Her husband sat with her. She said the malignant tumor on her uterus is too large to remove the uterus. She had been doing radiation for several months in December/January. She was sick, vomiting, the whole 9 yards. Now she is getting chemo. Unfortunately, non of the above are shrinking the tumor. Thus they cannot remove for fear they will cut into the tumor itself. She and her husband were inspirational to me. We talked about how difficult things can get but you cannot give up. Some how you just keep going on one day at a time and doing what ever you have to do to stay alive. I even laughed a lot today with the nurses. My mood today has taken a turn for the better. I guess I just needed to talk to two other people who understood even more than I did how difficult life can become at times. The woman is originally from Germany and he is originally from Poland. They were full of caring and humor and the whole experience with them just helped pick up my spirits. I cannot say that tomorrow I will feel quite like I do today, but at least for today, I feel OK and I hope the rest of you do too. Perhaps sometimes the best therapy is to meet and talk to/with somebody who has it harder than one's self.

Love n Hugs,

Nettie


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