tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19802617.post985174469432960218..comments2024-01-17T04:14:40.892-05:00Comments on A Pastor's Cancer Diary: March 17, 2007 - A Gap in the RecordCarlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00540884672406337833noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19802617.post-27246310731569750222007-03-21T23:57:00.000-04:002007-03-21T23:57:00.000-04:00Carl,Thank you for both responses.I find your blog...Carl,<BR/>Thank you for both responses.I find your blog informative,inspirational as well as humerous.Perhaps I can relate to your experiences more because we had similiar cancers and the same treatment.<BR/><BR/>I finished chemo three months ago.I think it will take me more time to process the effects of cancer and the chemo on my psyche.I'm probably going through that anger stage you and Leroy wrote about.I will have to shift priorities and change my life style.For 23 years I have been an adventurer traveling to remote areas in 3rd world countries.Six weeks before I became ill,I had spent three months backpacking sola in Patagonia.(No discernible symptoms).A return trip was planned fall '06, but of course I wasn't able to go.Perhaps this fall.By then I hope to accept that there will be limits to what I can do physically,like carrying a 40lb backpack and hiking 10-15 miles a day.The neuropathy which makes my legs feel like they are made of rubber will take a long time to heal,so I've been told.<BR/><BR/>I still haven't finished reading all of your diary.I did read the suggestion about keeping a journal.Great theraputic idea.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for listening.<BR/><BR/>Annette<BR/><BR/>P.S.The docs said that I had a "dramatic" response to the R-CHOP.I trusted that it would cure me although I've since heard that some patients with non-Hodgkins large cell don't respond.Guess we were lucky.<BR/><BR/>AnnetteAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19802617.post-39310185853120958182007-03-21T22:29:00.000-04:002007-03-21T22:29:00.000-04:00Annette,I've now caught up with my replies, and ha...Annette,<BR/><BR/>I've now caught up with my replies, and have posted a response to your earlier response.<BR/><BR/>Interesting phrase, "having lost ___ months of my life." Do we ever truly "lose" time like that, I wonder?<BR/><BR/>I don't consider my season of cancer treatment to be lost time, myself. It was hell at times, but it was also a powerful learning experience. Cancer is some teacher, huh? I'm still living into those lessons, and probably will be for some time.<BR/><BR/>You're certainly entitled to your own perspective, though. I don't think anyone can speak for anyone else, when it comes to cancer. We've all got our own distinctive voices.Carlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00540884672406337833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19802617.post-56922972165457907532007-03-19T22:03:00.000-04:002007-03-19T22:03:00.000-04:00Carl,I sent you a comment on your March 14 post bu...Carl,<BR/>I sent you a comment on your March 14 post but I'm not sure you read it as there was no response.<BR/><BR/>You last line of this entry says it for me also-living the full realization...of the before diagnosis,the chemo and now the on going maintenance.<BR/><BR/>I saw my primary doc. last week and was complaining about having lost 8 months of my life.R-CHOP really leveled me and I was not able to function as well as you.Later I told my friend and caregiver what I'd said.He told me that I had it all wrong he was the one who'd lost 8 months of his life consumed with my care and I hd gained 10 years,at least of mine.<BR/><BR/>I'm still reading through your past <BR/>posts.<BR/><BR/>Annette from New MexicoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com