A caregiver explains the reality of going through cancer for those who are new to the disease or have never experienced it.
BY Kim Johnson
PUBLISHED July 17, 2019
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.
Many people ask what it was like to go through cancer. Cancer is complex. It is an often uncertain and all-encompassing disease. Having watched cancer ravage my sister it is far more personal to me. It is watching a young woman fall victim to a horrible disease.
It is back pain that seems phantom and won't go away. It is restlessness that you know something is wrong but are unable to do anything because she is her own person. It is spending all night in a hospital room waiting for results. It is having so much anger but being unable to speak. It is waiting countless hours for confirmation to what you already know but wanting to hear the words anyway.
It is back pain that seems phantom and won't go away. It is restlessness that you know something is wrong but are unable to do anything because she is her own person. It is spending all night in a hospital room waiting for results. It is having so much anger but being unable to speak. It is waiting countless hours for confirmation to what you already know but wanting to hear the words anyway.
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