What you do matters, even in the waiting room of the oncologist's office.
PUBLISHED July 10, 2018
Jane has earned three advanced degrees and had several fulfilling careers as a librarian, rehabilitation counselor and college teacher. Presently she does freelance writing. Her articles include the subjects of hearing loss and deafness, service dogs and struggling with cancer. She has been a cancer survivor since 2010.
She has myelodysplastic syndrome, which is rare, and would love to communicate with others who have MDS.
When we are discouraged, depressed and ill, it is easy to feel insignificant and meaningless. We are only one of billions of people on this earth. I truly believe this is one of the reasons for the high suicide rate.She has myelodysplastic syndrome, which is rare, and would love to communicate with others who have MDS.
While we are in bed nauseous from chemo, recovering from surgery or facing yet another doctor’s appointment, it is easy to feel sorry for ourselves or that we are worthless.
Way back in 2009 a wonderful book called The Butterfly Effect: How Your Life Matters was written by Andy Andrews. The message is one of the most powerful ones I have ever heard.
In 1963, a man by the name of Edward Lorenz presented a hypothesis to the New York Academy of Science. Basically, his premise was when a single butterfly flaps its wings and moves molecules of air, which continues to move more molecules of air, eventually a hurricane can develop on the other side of the planet. He was ridiculed for 30 years for this idea until his theory was proven scientifically accurate!
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