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| On your journey to recovering... |
- Ask God to strengthen and provide you with the comfort He has promised. Take
time daily to mediate on His goodness and cultivate intimacy in your prayer life.
- Allow yourself to be pampered and embrace the love showered upon you by your
family, church, neighbors, co-workers and friends.
- Avoid making major decisions or changes during the first six months. Allow yourself
time to adjust to your circumstances and keep activities to a minimum.
- Seek to maintain stress-free schedules and choose simple routines to follow. In so
doing, you will create an atmosphere of peace and contentment.
- Take time to indulge yourself by taking naps and resting. Your body will be refreshed
and you will find nourishment for your mind and soul.
- Practice the art of saying "No thank you" and do not entertain guilty feelings. Guard
your schedule, you can't do it all.
- Surround yourself with positive and trustworthy family and friends. It's good to
invite guests for coffee or tea and partake in heart-to-heart conversations.
- Record your feelings in the Journal provided by H.O.P.E. Express your thoughts and
experiences by using prose and poetry or simply by writing letters as you go through
this journey.
- Finally, reach out to someone who may also be going through a similar journey.
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| How to cope when you hear.. "You have cancer." |
Guard your heart and mind with the peace of God. Walk tenderly through the coming days. Moreover, remember that you are important to God, your husband, children, family, and friends. Remember who you are and who you belong to. Set time aside to spend with God as you share any doubt and/or fear you may be experiencing. Search and seek the beauty of life that comes from within you; a gentle smile, a heartfelt embrace, and a gracious word of good will. Ask the Lord for grace to forgive those who say they will call and don't.
Look beyond the mistakes of those that attempt to say the right things and fail to do so. The truth is that most people genuinely wish to be helpful but are uncertain as to how. This is a new journey for you as well as those around you. If possible, allow a friend to journey with you. The road to recovery may be slow and painful, but the final steps will bring inner peace and calm to your troubled heart. You will laugh and love again. The pain will not last forever. Reach out for the Lord's hand and walk tenderly through the coming days and months. Allow His presence to bring you and those you love, hope, peace and comfort. |
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Cancer patients should avoid the routine use of antioxidant supplements during radiation and chemotherapy because the supplements may reduce the anticancer benefits of therapy, researchers concluded in a commentary published online May 27 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
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