Re: ms and cancer

On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 13:44:36 -0700, QQQte@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

>hi all who do you talk to when you have ms and cancer???? and know for
>sure that your going to die and not from ms...
>
>do you stop coming here? where does one go when you have both.... dory


I've had cancer and just got diagnosed with MS. Any help I can give I
will.

When I was first diagnosed with Stage IVB Hodgkins, three things
really helped me. The first was reading an essay on what cancer
statistics really mean in Bully for Brontosaurus, a collection of
essays by Stephen J. Gould. He was a scientist and had a very rare
cancer which statistically should have killed him. I understood a lot
more about what statistics mean after that and realized that it wasn't
important that I had a less than 18% chance of surviving to 2 years
but that I end up on that skinny survivor's end of the bell curve. I'm
16 years past that diagnosis so I think that headspace worked for me.

You can read it online at
http://www.cancerguide.org/median_not_msg.html

The second was about attitude.A doctor friend told me that I had
entered a situation where the absolute, only thing I could control was
my attitude. I know I desparately needed that reminder that my life
was not slipping out of my control.

The final vital thing was suppoert. I was used to rescuing others, not
needing help my self. When my children's father proved unable to deal
with my illness and its aftermath, I found a cancer support group and
got a lot of strength from that.

The second word over the door is support so, even though I am new
here, I'm pretty sure this is still a good place for you to seek that.

Take care,

Joy

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