Friday, August 11, 2017
I’m years past cancer treatment, so it doesn’t come up in conversations very often anymore. But sometimes, because it’s relevant for some reason or other, I just say, “I had breast cancer seven years ago.”
People usually do a double-take after that. They get all concerned, and ask if I’m okay. Yes, I’m okay. Yes, it was tough, but I really don’t want to get into it. I just needed to give you that small bit of information for the sake of our conversation, but I’d really like to leave it at that.
I know that the people in these situations mean well, I really do. But, I think I probably speak for most cancer patients when I say this: Sometimes (most of the time), we just want to be normal.
When you’re talking to someone with cancer, or who’s had cancer, here are some things you can do (and not do) to help with that:
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