Excerpted from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute blog
By Lyndsay McCaffery
“…I was stuck in this weird place of having cancer but not needing what people thought was the “normal” treatment. People kept telling me how lucky I was and how I should be grateful that my prognosis wasn’t worse. Don’t get me wrong, there were days where I felt all those things. But then there were days where I felt guilty, stressed, anxious and just angry. It was then that I began to understand that cancer comes in many forms with many outcomes. No one, no matter what diagnosis they face, ever wants to feel anything but supported and loved…”