Of the 'survivors' who share their stories on line most are definitely youngens.
Most of
the noise, most of the justifiable outrage, and undoubtedly most of the use of and
familiarity with ‘social media’ from blogs to Facebook to Twitter is obviously
dominated by youngens.
I cannot
even imagine if a diagnosis of lung cancer had entered my world during those
invincible decades of my 20’s and 30’s and 40’s. My heart goes out to all the
youngens and their families facing life altering diagnoses.
Yet as a young
geezer 'surviving' with lung cancer I am finding it a different story, a
different odyssey. Our daughter is a young adult not a child. I do not have to build in the
childhood anxieties of is Mom or Dad going to die with everything else.
If I do
not remind her, well then I do not have it – perhaps this logic is even more
common as I progress from pre-geezer to full geezer.
It’s a
diagnostic mutation of that old question does a tree make a noise if it falls
in the woods.
Patrick Leer
BLOGS:
Caregivingly Yours, MS Caregiver @ http://caregivinglyyours.blogspot.com/
My Lung Cancer Odyssey @ http://lung-cancer-survivor.blogspot.com/
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congratulations that you are indeed a cancer survivor! And until I read your title line, I had not even thought about being 'pre-geezer'! My youngun is now 34 years old. Age-wise, my husband and I both are in pre-geezer category. We've had the talk about what we want done if either of us becomes incapacitated and unable to care for oneself. We looked at family history, so I'm probably going to die from a heart attack or suffer a stroke, and he's going to live on with Alzheimers. (That is, if either of us doesn't get the dreaded cancer first). At least he won't know I'm gone after awhile.
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May you continue to be cancer free, Patrick, and may all your doctor appointments reveal a healthy, albeit aging body. Aging CAN be beautiful!
Hey Bea! Interesting combo you picked as in their early 80's my Aunt was diagnosed with lung cancer and my Uncle (my Mom's brother) was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. My Uncle died but my Aunt last year celebrated her 5 yr survivor mark.
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