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Wednesday, August 20, 2008
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Moving Ahead
We hope that this guide
has given you ideas and information you can use-now and in the
future. We encourage you to write to us about your own ideas and
experiences. We plan to update Facing Forward as needed
to include new advice, research findings, and relevant changes
in laws or social policies.
In compiling this guide, we have heard from cancer survivors with
many points of view. A common thread was respect for their fellow
survivors and a recognition that some of the changes in their
lives have been positive ones.
One survivor, Bill, described it like this:
- "Cancer survivorship
can be a catalyst for spiritual awakening, providing life
with depth and poignancy. Survivors themselves are often gutsy
and assertive, and they dare to take chances. They are often
optimistic, independent-minded, and compassionate and have
elevated self-esteem and pride...New attitudes towards work,
pleasure, and relationships develop with utmost clarity, while
superficial distractions and frivolous people are filtered
out... [Survivors] share a new understanding of time, a sense
of needing to make every minute count."
National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship President (1989-90)
Fitzhugh Mullan has compared cancer survivorship to crossing a
river and starting a new life on the other bank-with no maps or
trails to show the way. We hope that Facing Forward offers
some useful signposts for your unique journey and helps you, in
Mullan's words, " [civilize the new land] to make life there tolerable,
and even good."
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