Breast cancer is a disease that more and more women are getting affected by. Scientists think that it might be a matter of diet, heredity, lifestyle, stress and I have even read somewhere that it is a matter of resentment. For some women it might be one of those reasons, for others it might be all of the above. However, when a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer, usually she doesn’t care about the reason, but she cares more if her treatment is the right one, if this type of cancer is curable and how she can deal with it psychologically.
Unfortunately, the whole process that a patient has to undergo is time consuming and psychologically painful. Examinations and some more examinations, double the amount of appointments with various doctors, so as to have the security of a second opinion, biopsies, and eventually ending up in bureaucracy. Social Insurance Security Institute, National Health Service Organisation, public hospitals. A woman with a disease doesn’t have the courage to deal with all that, because at the same time she has to deal with her mentality, which is not the same every day.
A woman that sees her feminine part wounded cannot wake up every day with the same stamina. She has to get up though, either because she has a family to take care of or she has an extra check up to do. She will cover her scar with her clothes and will throw herself into battle, with the hope that everyone around her will understand that she can’t always be perfect.
There will be days that she won’t do anything. In fact, she might have the urge to drop everything, examinations, surgeries, treatments, just to get up and leave. All these are understandable and human. See, fear is one of our primitive feelings and people can’t discard it, only to minimize it. And the truth is that a woman with breast cancer and generally any type of cancer, is scared. Anyone would be scared, it is only human.
What can she do though when everything around her is going fast and the only thing that she wants to do is to lay in bed and get under the blanket? To have faith. Faith that she will make it. Faith that the universe won’t bring her something that she can’t deal with. A disease is just a way that the body uses in order to tell that something is not OK, it’s a ringing bell. A bell that says that this way of life has to change. Either we talk about diet or it is a matter of stress.
It might sound harsh and under no circumstances I wish for someone to get sick, but it is a great opportunity to re-examine actions and choices. If not now, then when? All those desires that are hidden deeply should come to the surface and become real. All those dreams should either become reality or otherwise should be sent to the stars.
Scars, wigs, burns, fatigue should become medals.
