Cancer Truth Note: #138
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Cancer patients can feel abandoned when treatment ends.
This is a tough one. You get diagnosed with cancer and the barrage of people begins; the endless doctors appointments and tests, the phone calls from family members and friends, the avalanche of decisions that usually need to be made with some amount of speed.
It’s a lot.
Sometimes too much.
Then treatment ends. The nurse says, “great all done, see you in three months.” You ring a bell, post a celebratory photo to social media, get dinner or see a movie (you know depending on how you feel on treatment days).
The appointments grind to a halt, the responses to questions regarding why you still have so many side effects take longer to get answered, and the phone stopped ringing.
Where you may have been overwhelmed by contact from others, now it is crickets.
Did you experience that? How did you navigate it?
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