Love the blog

Samantha

I am delighted to have stumbled upon your work. I find your art very compelling – as is your story. I moderate a blog called Ultra Sounds: An Online Form for creative exploration of the cancer experience. We accept submissions for creative works by people who are cancer patients or who are connected to or support cancer patients. We accept writing, art, photos, cartoons and videos. If you look at the site, you can click on the link to Ultra Sounds Mondays to see previous submissions. There are some wonderful creative works there. Perhaps you would consider submitting. I will definitely share your blog on the site.

All the best

Samantha

Cheers!

Another thing that sent me reeling is that until that point, I’d just assumed that cancer was a 6 week treatment in my life–kind of like here today and gone tomorrow. Suddenly, I was faced with a room full of people that had been struggling with cancer, multiple forms, multiple times, for double digit years. I wasn’t prepared for that. (THankfully, 4+ years out, it has been like I’d hoped!)

I think the biggest thing, though, was that I had a wonderful support system with my friends and family. Although they didn’t totally understand (as none of them had had cancer or been seriously sick), they were all super supportive, took time off work to help me, rallied around me, brought me food, tracked my meds, brought their violin to treatments and played for me. One even shaved her head. All of this kept me in a place where I never felt the need to have to bond and identify with strangers facing the same or similar journeys.

Having said all that, however, I did take GREAT comfort in having you on my watch. There was a certain ‘something’ which I couldn’t ever put words to, but which gave me great comfort, by the fact that you’d be there, done that, and come out on the other side.