Intamacy and communications
I think the hardest part of this damn cancer is all the changes it throughs at you. Some, if not most of them are instant changes and the difficulty is adjusting to these changes. They are not small changes, they are HUGE. The first instant change is the news that you have CANCER. That is the dreaded word that everyone fears. We have all seen or heard of someone that dies from cancer and all of those images race through your mind regardless of who says what to try to calm you down. The images are horrific and extremely frightening. They conjour feelings that you could never have imagined in your wildest dreams (nightmares). That hurdle, in hindsite, was nothing when looking at the whole thing in the rear view mirror. The diagnosis is scary for both of us (my wife and I) and we can talk about it as a couple with the feelings about the future. That was very easy, again in hindsite. Then comes the options. We lis...