Aug 29 2007
Why cancer keeps a secret
There is a taboo when it comes to cancer: as if you did something wrong and … gosh, what is more bad than having cancer that you wouldn’t go in the open with it?
But there is another reason I noticed now since Mom is above the knife and recovering in hospital. Her sister is visiting her a lot. Not like before when she was taking care of her husband suffering from kidney cancer.
This is something I always overlooked: it’s not only the cancer person that get’s isolated in palliative care at home: suddenly the whole family that takes care of the cancer patient becomes isolated. Mom has seen her sister the last few days more than in the 20 years she was taking care of her husband living with cancer. If you can’t let your husband 1 single second alone, then you are stuck, healthy but stuck…
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