When you have a life-threatening illness like cancer, and you're faced with the alternative, it gives doing whatever it is you do a much sweeter taste.
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Everything is sweetened by risk.
The thing with cancer is that it's usually the chemo rather than the disease itself that makes the patient feel so ill, particularly at the start.
Once cancer happens it changes the way you live for the rest of your life.
A life-threatening illness or two certainly gives you an awareness of your own mortality. It heightens your sense of gratitude for things that previously, if you've not taken them for granted, you perhaps never appreciated how precious they were. That's almost a platitude, but one has to state the obvious.
In our family health, it's about having a balanced life, about laughing and staying on a positive note.
People's love of sweets and guilty feelings about overindulgence are pretty universal.
In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.
The only reason to have a positive mental attitude is that it makes life better. It doesn't cure cancer.
I'm sorry to say cancer can kill you, but it doesn't make you a better person.
When you go through a long illness, certainly one of cancer, there's a certain release from it and relief that it has come to an end, because the suffering can be unbearable, as opposed to an abrupt stop to life when they go out the door and there's a loved one who never comes home because of some accident.
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