Interesting article: Beyond Cancer

[karen z]

HEALTH | August 12, 2008
Cases: Having Cancer, and Finding a Personality
By RUTH PENNEBAKER
"I wanted to be someone, a recognizable personality, a full-blooded, memorable human being, and not just a cancer patient. I had already lost the person I used to be".

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/12/health/12case.html?ex=1219204800&en=bc970bf73325d551&ei=5070&emc=eta1

[Mary Jo]

Thanks Karen...I liked that. How true.

Love to you today...

Mary Jo

[rebecca0623]

I am printing this article and emailing to my friends and family - it really does a good job expressing how I have felt. Thanks for sharing!

[karen z]

Thanks Mary Jo and Rebecca,
It is how I have felt too- hard to explain if one hasn't "been there".
kz