tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8749436707205297492.post4510165637502575531..comments2023-05-19T15:30:01.828+01:00Comments on Chris's Cancer Community: A new year must always bring hope!Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05208572330195914101noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8749436707205297492.post-6853139835653973932014-01-09T12:13:50.910+00:002014-01-09T12:13:50.910+00:00Hi Catherine
You are right about drawing a line i...Hi Catherine<br /><br />You are right about drawing a line in the sand at some stage. I do it quite frequently actually, as I am finding that things are changing so quickly these days, that I am constantly having to readjust my thoughts and plans. So many things seem to be happening that are out of our control too.<br /><br />I have often felt that without hope we have nothing. Like you it helps me through life, but it is not always easy for some people to find it! <br /><br />My best to you and your family for 2014, and I hope it brings you many good things, Chris xChrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05208572330195914101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8749436707205297492.post-23721626783288396882014-01-09T12:07:23.249+00:002014-01-09T12:07:23.249+00:00Hi Karen
A happy new year to you too.I'm so p...Hi Karen<br /><br />A happy new year to you too.I'm so pleased you liked the subject I chose to write about. You couldn't really have summed up my thoughts any better! Your personal experience is wider than mine, but I was with you, in everything that you described above.<br /><br />As the new year came upon us I just felt that we just had to have hope that things would improve. If we didn't have that, life would be very tough. You are so right about sometimes thinking our diagnosis is a mistake. I think that constantly, and even when receiving the news I remember asking the doctor, if he had the correct file! <br /><br />I do indeed live my life with hope, Karen, and I hope that things improve for you in 2014. My party animal days feel a long way back now, but who knows? <br /><br />I feel very privileged that you feel able to share some of your very personal thoughts and emotions with myself and the readers. We are all learning a lot from you. <br /><br />Much love, Chris xxChrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05208572330195914101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8749436707205297492.post-79061211741081714302014-01-06T21:34:25.116+00:002014-01-06T21:34:25.116+00:00I guess some people need to draw a line in the san...I guess some people need to draw a line in the sand and see it as a fresh start. For me Jan. 1st has never been that line. But there are moment, big or small, when it does feel like life resets. I think hope is a wonderful thing. It helps me face the big unknown of what comes next, and I hope brings you good things in this new year. ~CatherineFacing Cancer Togetherhttp://www.facingcancer.canoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8749436707205297492.post-20803986239137969362014-01-05T20:03:31.148+00:002014-01-05T20:03:31.148+00:00dear Chris,
happy new year to you and your family...dear Chris,<br /><br />happy new year to you and your family!!! I wish you all good things and many happy surprises in 2014. I loved that you put so much focus on "hope" in this post. such a wonderful gift to have to keep us on our hind legs. the miracle of hope is that it is an ever-evolving entity that is always there for us. perhaps we hoped in the beginning that our diagnosis was a mistake, but when we knew it wasn't, our hope was that our treatment would bring us a cure. if a cure was not possible, hope did not leave us, it simply evolved into what we needed it to be in the next phase...and on and on. when I cared for dying patients as a Hospice nurse, I found that reviewing the evolution of their hope, from diagnosis to then actively dying, was still holding firm, albeit in a different frame - the hope there would be no pain, the hope that dear family and friends could be given the support and guidance they so needed, the hope that for many, there would be something waiting on the other side when the dying slipped the bonds of their earthly lives, peacefulness and freedom from the wretchedness of pain and sorrow. with following up on my patients, I saw hope personified, still present, there to comfort and help the loved one's survivors to be able to realign their lives and go on to live purposefully and meaningfully. <br /><br />when one has hope, it seems to lead to setting goals. for me, as a new widow and once again, a cancer patient, hope and the goals that live right alongside it, are what keep me afloat. the fluidity of hope carries over to being more flexible with the goals I set - a little tweaking can be huge, and in this life, nothing is written in stone! and when even some of the hopes and goals fall into place, the floodgates of gratitude are flung open to bathe and cleanse and restore with it's beautiful and soothing balm. <br /><br />dear Chris, I wish you and all your readers the enduring gifts of hope and gratitude. and I am glad that you were able to find comfort and contentedness just being at home on new years eve. and who knows, that party animal inside you may well have the chance to show itself once again!<br /><br />much love and light,<br /><br />Karen tccomments2013https://www.blogger.com/profile/00446394638074551345noreply@blogger.com