Best wishes to you!
Three older (ages 50s-70s) colleagues and a 14 year old (teenager) friend of my family:
The teenager's family is trying to keep her life as normal as possible and making sure she isn't reduced to "so-and-so who has cancer" when people talk about her. They think it's important for her to keep the balance in terms of family and friends eventhough she's now being home schooled. The only thing that I don't like, and it seems like a form of retreatism from her condition, is that she text messages NONSTOP all day and everyday. She can be at a table full of people and she's quiet because she's texting instead of talking. Her family doesn't want to "discipline" or correct her that much until her condition improves.
I only know how one of my colleagues is handling it because he is one of my mentors. He's keeping a good spirit and an excellent sense of humor. He travels a lot and has learned to focus more on his family. He sometimes jokes about how his body is changing and "fighting him." His doctor considers his condition to be mild and that he should have a full recovery in the next year. His condition is about the same as his sibling's who was diagnosed with cancer about a week before he was. They are both in good spirits and laughing and loving life. The doctor said their cancers were caught earlier. Their mother's cancer was caught very late and she passed away many years ago.
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