The poet Maya Angelou wrote, “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”
It’s difficult to know how to react to someone who has cancer. What should you say? How should you act around them? I’m sure each cancer survivor could make their own rendering of this list. My goal with my version is not to criticize anyone’s past actions, but to help us all know better, so we can do better.
My patient identification number is blah-blah-blah. And that’s what I felt like at the start of my cancer treatment; just a number. Going through treatment, these were the Top 10 things I wish everyone knew about having cancer™ …