We are so communal or tied together with others. We find comfort in that and are so used to journeying together. I think when you are faced with a possible terminal illness, no matter how your support system helps you, you feel alone.
This is not necessarily bad. A gift of being told you have cancer is that you have to deal with that aloneness and with mortality. The positive outcomes to this are that you get the opportunity to reflect, repent, rejoice and possibly make restitution.
I am finding that the best way to deal with these things is straight on. Instead of avoiding or distracting myself from these uncomfortable things, I do best to charge in.
The physical part of this is to allow myself to nest and deal as much a possible just with this for a time. I have the benefit of a husband who will let me do this, doing my research and nutritional forays into new territory.
The spiritual counterpart of this is taking time for a retreat with God to connect more deeply and find the rock solid bottom that I know is there, but sometimes lose sight of.
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