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cancer diagnosis and treatment
A cancer diagnosis is called flat ground before getting up, which is flooded by a tsunami of medical jargon strange life events, and medication, the horrific treatment, surgery is possible and an uncertain future. Everything is going along too quickly to help find your emotional balance.
Just a simple statement from your doctor at once destroyed all the known and comfortable. Your home, your relationships, your work and any future change in an instant and will never be the same.
Unfortunately, you can not afford a delay between the diagnosis of cancer and treatment. The timing of previous chemotherapy, radiotherapy or surgery, the better. Unfortunately, her cancer has no sense of fair play and not wait for you to orient themselves.
So suddenly you're forced to make an extremely important decision to reorganize your schedule and to fight against the battle of your life while you are emotionally, intellectually and physically out of school.
This is the worst possible time for your to lose your best, strongest domestic stable. Therefore, it is essential to find a quick way to center despite turbulence in his life and remember their former strong, confident, lucid self.
Attitude Adjustment
Use probability of survival for inspiration rather than fill you with fear. If only 3 of 5 patients survived with their particular type of tumor, then someone must be No. 4 or 5! Decide you're in the right side of these ratings.
You will spend much time surrounded by masked strangers who speak a language I do not understand (Possibly Greek or Latin). You shuffle along the corridors of cold with a paper gown and slippers. If everyone around you gets up, you flat on your back or its tail in the air. Remember that all these people are working for you. They are part of your team medical staff. They are completely focused on obtained by this.
Search Help
Unless you have a medical degree, which is understandable out of his element. Ask and keep asking until you understand the answers. Write the answers. No, do not think you're stupid. They work for you, Remember?
Provide assistance
You'll feel better when you help others feel better. You have significant experience and the unique wisdom shared with a group of support, even from the first day of treatment. Absolutely nobody can understand what is happening by others fighting for the same challenge. Participate in studies that are relevant to their condition. These studies are usually nothing more than a brief telephone interview. Their efforts will help other economies through that same experience.
Recordkeeping
It's a good idea to put all the phone numbers, hours of chemotherapy and various drugs on scraps of paper. This is amazing how quickly you gather important information. Buy a three-ring binder. The division into "reports" Laboratory ", numbers calendar phone "," question "and so funny Cover Stick or comics the same thing. When they are well again, the same folder.
Finding your center
If you have practiced meditation, breathing exercises, tai chi or yoga in the past, stay practice as their doctors approve. Continue to make you completely absorbed as a musical instrument, sewing or painting.
Rethinking their relationship with your BODY
Your body is only part of who you are and your cancer is only a small part of your body. Think your body as something that is done instead of all of what you are.
Feed your mind, body and spirit
After everything will all win this battle. Eating and sleeping well. After a time of tranquility. Do not get so bogged down in questions of medical waste seen coming out of this stronger and wiser than before their diagnosis. Imagine a new sound and radiation after chemotherapy and then surgery.
About the Author
Diane Neuman founded The Yoga Workshop in San Francisco where she taught for 11 years. Neuman wrote and illustrated HOW TO GET THE DRAGONS OUT OF YOUR TEMPLE (Celestial Arts). Currently Neuman writes and illustrates a health blog that draws on her 50 years of studying yoga, advanced breathing techniques, stress management and relaxation exercises. To find her blog and learn a new breathing lesson every week, check into Breathing Deep Exercises
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