Thought for the day: Telling our cancer stories

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Thought for the day: Telling our cancer stories

Posted Sep 8th 2007 6:00AM by Patricia Mayville-Cox
Filed under: Thought for the Day

The universe is made of stories, not atoms. -- Muriel Rukeyser

Our cancer stories may be stories of our own or of our loved ones. Of beating cancer. Of loss and grief. Of finding new meaning in life after a cancer diagnosis. Or maybe not finding any meaning in it all. Of realizing just how strong we really are, whether we knew it or not.

I wrote about my experience of losing someone I loved to cancer here.

Some of us share our stories with the world through blogs or books or poetry or music or film or art or activism. Some of us may write our stories in personal journals. Some of us recite them in our heads and hold them in our hearts.

How do you tell your story?

Reader Comments

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1. The more people share their stories of cancer, the faster the disease will stop being cloaked in fear, superstition and misconception.
Regards,
Richard Day Gore

Posted at 9:41PM on Sep 9th 2007 by richard day gore

2. I agree that sharing cancer stories is important. Not only for the general perception of the disease, but a load shared is always a lighter load on the one carrying it and it normally helps someone understand that no matter how hard it gets, one is never alone in all this.
love and light
Annie
Steven's mom
http://www.livingwithcml.blogspot.com

Posted at 2:58PM on Sep 14th 2007 by Annie

3. Hello Aniie and everyone,

I recently had the pleasure and honor of editing an anthology of true stories by people touched by breast cancer called Voices of Breast Cancer: Stories for Courage, Comfort and Strength. It is a very moving, inspiring and informative volume. Here's a link:

http://www.amazon.com/Voices-Breast-Cancer-Companion-Strength/dp/1934184020/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-2345163-4346246?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190302042&sr=1-1

Regards to all,
Richard Day Gore

Posted at 12:42PM on Sep 20th 2007 by Richard Day Gore



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