Life after cancer does mean making some new choices, facing new
challenges, valuing your life more, and waking up to the fact that
you deserve to do what you love. You discover new things and realize it is a
fight for life, through life with grit, determination and perseverance, and
that the fight is never over. It is only at the end of your treatment,
your journey of real fight starts. You really embark on another
leg of your journey. It is adjusting to a lot of changes in your body, a fight
with yourself mentally and looking up to squash the new challenges that crop up
in your path.
After your body has been through an enormous assault by the Emperor of maladies,
recovery is a huge thing that depends only on you. You are going to bounce
back, though not immediately. You are hit time and again throwing you down,
either with a catapult of the after effect of the treatment or new threats
from the creeping crab itself, that that makes your life worth fighting for, to
dare and challenge it, making you feel victorious and not a victim.
The treatment may even have cognitive changes of thinking, remembering or
processing that affect many aspects of life. Cancer is not a death
sentence, it is a journey of life that that 'can' make you a survivor;
who is always a warrior fighting out the challenges the emperor of maladies
sends your way to take care of yourself.
Sometimes I feel it is an awakening of your 'self' to take care and keep
fighting, whatever it is that you are dealt with. The heart says I am beating
for you, love me. The weakening of your muscles, tissues, ligaments and bones
tell you to keep yourself fit and happy. Fight for that twinkle in your eyes
that threaten to dwindle and dare to keep them alive. A survivor's armour is
the nutrition and exercise to keep yourself fit, in spite of all the
challenges hurled at you. It reminds you to feed your specific needs of life.
Wouldn't it be a shame to weaken after having fought the battle of cancer?
Life after cancer can sometimes be long and arduous path, with many
challenges cropping up to weaken the body and mind. The treatment and the fight
sometimes heighten a sense of vulnerability that creates confusion. At
times effects of treatment doesn't stop with the end of treatment, but
manifests itself in the journey after the treatment. It is only a never give up
attitude that can keep your fight alive and your courage to challenge it leads
you out of the tunnel of pain. It is always a new learning experience of life
to fight life.
"Dare to face every challenge and rise like the Phoenix."
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