What my Doctors Didn't Tell me About Cancer

06/03/2025

'What my Doctors Didn't Tell me About Cancer'

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06/03/2025

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23/10/2024

Here's the latest blog from 'What my Doctors Didn't Tell me About Cancer'. Please share it around.

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10/10/2024

This week drew my attention to the need for reviewing and revising what we're learning about our cancers and their treatments. Do please share your understandings. Things we think may be common knowledge to others can be new to others. And this week I've had to unlearn something too!

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01/10/2024

The Silent Heling of Inner Peace

Here's the latest blog from 'What my Doctors Didn't Tell me About Cancer':

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26/09/2024

Here's my latest birthday special blog:

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17/09/2024

How to train your corcodile: The latest blog from 'What my Doctors Didn't Tell me About Cancer'.

https://brianscancerjourney.blogspot.com/2024/09/how-to-train-your-crocodile.html

10/09/2024

Hello friends,

Welcome to this weeks' blog. When I saw my oncologist I mentioned several minor aches and pains I thought he should be aware of - in case they're simptomatic of something more serious. Each time the response was, "Well that's your age," or "But are your age you should expect . . .", so that's OK, then. My mother used to tell me I had growing pains. The only difference is, seventy something years later, they're 'growing old pain'.

Don't let the weather drag you down. Just look for your inner sunshire. Joy doesn't have to come from outside of you. Here's the link:

brianscancerjourney.blogspot.com/2024/09/enoughs-enough.html

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Love and best wishes

Brian

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02/09/2024

Wholeness & Health: what's the difference?

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27/08/2024

Here's my latest blog: Love Yourself Better.

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23/08/2024

Joseph Campbell did it for me. Around 1984 I saw the TV series, The Power of Myth, in which he was interviewed by Bill Moyers. I bought the book. It changed my whole way of seeing things. The quotation below is a perfect summary of the philosophy that has guided my life, particularly in the last 15 years while journeying with cancer.

"Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life, the idea came to him of what he called 'the love of your fate.' Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say, 'This is what I need.' It may look like a wreck, but go at it as though it were an opportunity, a challenge. If you bring love to that moment--not discouragement--you will find the strength is there. Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life. What a privilege! This is when the spontaneity of your own nature will have a chance to flow.
Then, when looking back at your life, you will see that the moments which seemed to be great failures followed by wreckage were the incidents that shaped the life you have now. You’ll see that this is really true. Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes."

~Joseph Campbell, Reflections on the Art of Living.
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