Between the initial diagnosis (a probing of your physiology); all of the focus and attention, the testing, the poking and the prodding; and general concentration on everything about you - it's understandable that a cancer patient can develop a certain inward view of the world around them. To that end, I apologize if the preponderance of my comments, insights, musings and commiseration has been around my particular strain of Multiple Myeloma. In essence it IS all about me and my MM world - but it's all I know.
My goal is that my perspective, though built around a Multiple Myeloma frame of reference, offers more than just a view from the inside of MM, but rather a more broad overview of the nature of cancer as a disease, and the myriad things (physical and emotional) that happen in association with this overwhelming condition. What happens to the patient, what happens to the family members, what happens to the caregivers, what happens to the co-workers and to anyone else who comes across your path. I don't know all of the answers, and I'm not even sure about all of the questions, but I do hope that if by my saying it out loud, I can bring a moment of comfort or solace to a person in a remotely similar health crisis situation - then I have found some shred of value in my circumstance.
Life doesn't work out so well that every cloud has a silver lining, but if we can hang on long enough to weather the storm, then there is a high probability that clearing (maybe even sunshine) awaits ahead.
