[Ailist] RE: How to Stay Positive With Cancer

[Olen Jones]

Olen Jones, Community Relations
National Community Renaissance 
National CORE
9065 Haven Avenue, Suite 100
Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730 
(909) 483-2444 Ext. 122
(909) 483-2448 Fax
ojones at nationalcore.org 


Like several of the responses to this question, one idea that helped me
through treatment and recovery was what I had gained as a result of the
loss of my health.  Like others, discovering the love and support of
friends and family, the rich conversations I was able to have with my
wife and children, the experiences I was able to share with family and
friends through treatment, the relationships with the medical
professionals, the impact I could have on the medical professionals by
choosing to approach my disease as a living person rather than a dying
person, the story I now have to share with others experiencing similar
struggles, were so much greater than the disease. 

I really feel like I gained so much more than I lost.