What Your Family Doesn't Tell You About Your Battle With Cancer
It has been said that cancer is a family illness meaning when someone in the family is diagnosed, it takes a toll on the whole family and affects the way they live their day to day lives 1( Teschendorf et al., 2007) . I used to think that this idea was a little insensitive to cancer patients until I became one myself. It is true that there is a very large adjustment in everyone's lives when there is a cancer diagnosis in the family. I sat down with my parents over FaceTime to discuss some of the things they may have been afraid to talk about while I was actively doing treatment. This conversation also helped me identify some issues I was struggling with since I have finished chemotherapy such as anniversary reactions like we learned this semester. It was interesting to see how their feelings differed from mine while we were all trying to learn to navigate such a difficult and new time. During the process of a cancer diagnosis, I be...