Chronicles of a
Cancer Patient

Chronicles of a Cancer Patient eBook

The Chronicles of a Cancer Patient eBook contains 12 months of posts from the Chronicles of a Cancer Patient blog, including encouraging quotes, descriptions of all 12 chemotherapy sessions and discussions of side effects, tests and recovery, packaged in PDF form for convenient reading or printing. Click here for a sample.

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It’s almost difficult to read some of the early entries of this text. I wrote this while undergoing six months of chemotherapy for Hodgkins Lymphoma. And at first, if I am going to incur anything from these first few entries, it seems almost as if I was…enjoying it. I don’t know how I managed such optimism during the first few treatments.

I think I was a little disappointed in myself when, half-way through treatments, my disposition tanked completely. I guess I wanted to be a hero; to go through six months of cancer treatment in a way that I thought people would admire. I thought that to be “strong” through treatments meant to act like they weren’t happening; to ignore them and keep my chin up without shedding a tear.

But maybe real heroism is telling the truth – and the truth is I shed many tears. That is part of dealing with cancer – acknowledging and accepting yourself as a real human, who cries, and needs others, and sometimes gets sick, and sometimes eats too much, and sometimes sleeps too much – and will someday pass on, making room for others to have the same beautiful experience.

As you read through this book, you might be able to see the transformation I took during this time. I think that’s what’s important about this book – it shows how one person evolved in his attitude toward cancer, toward himself, and toward life.

Sincerely,

David Hahn
Cancer Survivor