I worked very hard at recovery. Now I am trying to accept a new normal.
I have post-transplant complications including fatigue, graft versus host disease, organ damage, emotional trauma, food constraints, and am immune compromised.
I get tired of blaming “the Big C” but often it comes out; for example, I get extremely fatigued and have to leave after a few hours, or people resent the fact that I am still careful and masking, so I mumble something to explain myself.I often decline social engagements for all of those reasons, and also just because I don’t want to be odd.
If you believe that healthy people resent your need to be extremely careful, for instance by wearing a mask, then tell yourself that if they’d like to experience the life-changing effects of cancer, you’d be happy to switch places with them. I run some of these negative responses for two reasons: Because they are sometimes offering an important or useful correction, or they are representative of a large group of respondents.
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