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Lesson 5 & 6
Lesson 5: It’s not your fault. Cancer patients have atendency to second guess the past. I know that I did. Why did thishappen to me? What did I do wrong? But that kind of thinking does nothelp in your treatment or in the outcome.Getting cancer is not your fault. You just have to know that thosekinds of things happen in life and your objective now is not to dwellon what might have been but on what is. So I believe the best optionis to get your plan in place and stick with it. Don’t think about whois to blame. Think about your actions.Lesson 6: You’ve got to have hope. There is a song in DamnYankees called “You’ve got to have heart” sung by the Washingtonbaseball team in the locker room regarding their game with theYankees. One line in the song goes. “You’ve got to have hope; milesand miles and miles of hope.” And that is true with the fight againstcancer. You have got to hope that you will succeed. You have got tohope that tomorrow will be better than today. You have got to havehope that the treatment will work. If you don’t have hope in what youare doing, than the odds are that it will be a self-fulfillingprophecy and you will fail.I am now wearing a yellow LiveStrong Bracelet from the Lance ArmstrongFoundation. Any time during the day that I feel that I am losing myconfidence or feeling down about things, I take a look at the braceletand it reminds me that I must have hope.Previous StoryNext StoryCorrections or additions?This page is published by PrincetonInfo.com— the web site for U.S. 1 Newspaper in Princeton, New Jersey.
