Glad to hear from you Scorcho.
It was found that grandmother had cancer a few months ago, after she got in a car accident, but the chemo treatment eliminated the cancer and now she's ok. The chemo was not easy, but she handled the whole thing as if she just had a cold. There were ups and down, but today, it's as if nothing had ever happened. She is religious, so to her there was never even a second where she felt scared or worried. It's as if it had just been a cloudy day. If people hadn't been told or if she had her hair, no one would have known she had cancer.
Almost as soon as her cancer was cured, we found out my aunt, her daughter, has brain cancer, and it is extremely advanced. The chemo is very difficult for her to handle. It doesn't help that she continues to smoke anyway, but I can't really blame her in such difficult circumstances. That being said, again my grandmother is not flinching, she has the same attitude as always. She is conscious of the pain her daughter is going through, she is there to support her and take care of her, but it is a lot like when she had cancer herself; no worries.
I don't know how to explain her attitude, I think a person has to be very religious to feel like my grandmother does. Her daughter is not, I'm not. But my grandmother, she lives as if she was a privileged person working in God's garden, and as such I think to her there is no more concept of bad times, not for herself, regardless of the situation.
I'm telling you this just because I know people who have had to deal with cancer, and there are so many out there who could share similar stories, some who you'd think would never have made it and did, and how they lived during those days.
I think eventually you'll be writing on GAF to someone else about how it was for you when you had cancer, and it will become just that, a memory, like it has become for my grandmother and I hope will become for my aunt.
Cheers David!
