• zephorah@lemm.ee
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      1 month ago

      Cancer recovery IS wholesome.

      There are a lot of different people out there with a lot of different approaches to life among patients, but there are patterns that pop out. The most common is just straight endurance, more of a True Neutral approach of let’s just do the steps and tortoise walk through this until it’s done.

      Then there are the I hate my life for doing this to me and want to pay it forward to everyone in healthcare because I have to be here at all types.

      Then there’s the I’m going to roll with it because it’s no one’s fault, scared but not rancorous, and while this sucks, I want to find whatever joy I can in all the details of the life I have right now.

      Tom here is like I have a thin frame and a bald head from the chemo, Picard it is this Halloween. Then he gets all his hair back, puts on the weight and a lovely beard and uses that costume again. Dual purpose probably, to bask in his recovery. A celebration of getting to use the costume again in a new way with a better, healthier body.

      Tom is the latter patient. Those patients are among the most wholesome things in life you will ever encounter simply because of who they are as people.