cancer patients,how did u stand strong to fight cancer in ur bodies?

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Cancer causes many changes and many emotions and the fighting aspect is overused and preached by people who have no conception of how cancer really affects people. No one who has not gone down that road can possibly tell you how to feel or fight or act, it is a truly unique and personal experience and differs from one person to the next. When I was undergoing radiation I saw many bad things and people very very young and very old and everything in between and it was truly humbling and heart breaking. I had gone in at the beginning feeling sorry for myself but one day i was waiting for my turn to go in and sitting with a young man waiting for his wife and there was a TV there and he asked what I wanted to see and I said I didn't really care and he said neither do I and then he told me his wife had throat cancer, she was about 23 and he was 24 and she had a handkerchief clutched to her throat and it was bleeding and she was crying, very quietly and softly, before she went in. Then he told me about a sailing trip a friend of his had taken him on and how much he had loved it and it was then I noticed a huge scar going halfway around his head and he told me he had inoperable brain cancer. That was the end of my feeling sorry for myself. I was still emotional and all but I stopped feeling so sorry for myself after that.