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Does Anyone Really "Beat" Cancer? (or any other incurable illness)

I have so many health problems that I often forget about some of them until they are thrust back into the forefront of my mind and life. Some of these temporarily forgotten health problems are incurable things like cancer, tumors, and variations of Systemic Mastocytosis symptoms which make their appearances much less frequently. My primary illness, Systemic Mastocytosis, is in the forefront most days. My spinal injuries are in the forefront at all times because these injuries affect everything I want to do, everything I attempt to do and the pain never goes away. Sometimes, however, something happens or I see something to remind me of the things which I do purposefully push to the back of my mind and would prefer to forget.  I suppose this idea of pushing things to the back of one's mind is a way of coping. I purposely try to let go of all the things I cannot control. I don't want to needlessly worry about these things because, hey, I really can't do a damn thing about