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Remember when I used to blog about cancer a lot? No? Well that's ok, I almost can't remember that far back either. But it's true, I used to be a health blogger and I blogged about cancer several times a month.
My feedreader was filled with women who were blogging about surviving cancer, blogging about loved ones who weren't surviving cancer, and blogging about how to prevent cancer.
When I think about what caused me to stop blogging about cancer, I realize that I unsubscribed to most of the cancer bloggers I'd been following because it got to be too much.
Yea.
As someone blogging about cancer from the outside, I had the luxury of turning my back on cancer.
Suddenly, something has happened to my feedreader. There are blog posts about cancer lurking around every corner. Cancer doesn't care that you're a food blogger or a mommy blogger or a craft blogger.
There's a lesson there.
knitnut blogged about the day she got cancer.
There was a day – a single specific day – on which I got cancer. I don’t know what day it was, except it was probably about four or five years ago because that’s how long it takes breast cancer to grow from a single mutated cell into a discoverable lump.
A Mama's Blog blogs about the results of her biopsy.
How do you ruin your family and friends days by telling them you have cancer? I decided to send an e-mail to a close friend, and figured that was a good way to start telling my family and friends. I wouldn’t have to say it- I wouldn’t have to speak it. But then I had to type out the phrase- I have cancer. It didn’t matter if I had to say it or type it.
BlogHer CE Tammy Donroe from Food on the Food blogs the C word.
I’ve struggled with whether or not to bring this up on the blog. This is a food blog, after all, not a cancer blog. And I don’t want this to become a cancer blog (not that there’s anything wrong with that). But this blog is about my life through food, and if I censor my life too much, then it doesn’t feel honest. Plus, logistically speaking, it was going to be tricky to hide it. Sooner or later you were going to wonder why all of my dinners of late have been composed of 50% potato chips and 50% tequila. The increased unexplained absences might seem suspicious given my previously consistent blogging schedule. And the mood swings. My god, the mood swings. PMS is dreadfully boring by comparison.
Korean Cuisine is wondering what to do when her treatments end.
I've spent the last 7 months fighting this horrible disease. It's all I know at the moment and it utterly consumes me. My daily regimen consists of visiting two separate hospitals to get radiation to hopefully kill off any errant cancer cells that might be left over from my surgery. How do you just brush it off and go back to living?
Which leads me back to that lesson.
I might have turned my back on cancer blogging for awhile, but cancer doesn't go away. Cancer changes your life, whether you have it now, or you've survived it, or you're just a blogger like me.
Share your cancer blog posts and those written by bloggers you read. I've learned my lesson. No more turning my back on cancer.
~~Denise
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