When dealing with cancer, it's important to know your limits and be OK with them, to focus on the good.
BY Kim Johnson
PUBLISHED July 27, 2018
Kim is a nursing student who is hoping to find her place amongst the phenomenal oncology nurses and doctors who cared for her sister. She loves reading, volunteering and enjoying the outdoors of Colorado.
July 11 was four years since my sister was diagnosed with stage 4 Hodgkin's lymphoma. In the past four years, my family – primarily my sister and I – have dealt with the realities of having cancer in our lives. There were times when I felt like it was ending, and she was going to die from cancer. There were moments that I felt sorry for the situation that we found ourselves in. And there were points when I was angry at everybody and nobody at the same time.
In the beginning, I thought that having cancer didn't matter. We were the Johnson family – strong, tight-knit and invincible. But as each day passed and things got harder, I was proven wrong. Cancer wreaked havoc on a family that had already endured so much. This illness ravaged every piece of us. It invaded every corner of what we had thought was normal and tore up every moment of time.
In the beginning, I thought that having cancer didn't matter. We were the Johnson family – strong, tight-knit and invincible. But as each day passed and things got harder, I was proven wrong. Cancer wreaked havoc on a family that had already endured so much. This illness ravaged every piece of us. It invaded every corner of what we had thought was normal and tore up every moment of time.
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