Cancer: Finding Hope In The Little Things In Life

“Cancer” just might be the scariest word a patient can hear from a doctor’s mouth. It sounds like a death knell, like a pronouncement of the end. But with all the research and treatment options available to cancer patients in this day and age, many patients who are diagnosed with cancer will find themselves returning to or continuing on with their normal lives. What can make the difference? Hope.

 

Hope Can Keep You Going

Hope can be the motivation to accept or continue treatment even when it’s hard to go through. It can keep your spirits up day by day and hour by hour. Finding hope can help you look past today’s trials and tribulations toward the better days to come. Hope lends us strength in the hard times, as it has for centuries.

 

Explore Your Many Options

Treatment professionals like the ones at Century Wellness Clinic can help you locate sources of hope. You might also find hope in little personal things, like an upcoming birthday, a visit from a friend or a movie you plan to see. Look for hope in the words of cancer survivors, in person or through the many online references available. Find hope in the research of organizations like the American Cancer Society.

 

Everyone Has Unique Sources

What provides hope for one person might not work for you, and that’s perfectly normal. If what you find isn’t giving you hope, don’t give up. And don’t hesitate to ask someone for help, or use more than one source for help. Reaching out to others may even be something that brings you hope all by itself. Find what works for you.

 

Yours is Renewable

Even when it seems like everything is at it’s gloomy worst, there are still more things to find that offer hope. A friend can often help find them. A professional can guide you toward them. Someone who’s already gone through what you’re going through can show you some. Sometimes it’s just a matter of looking harder, or finding something to look forward to, especially when you’ve thought your hope is lost. You can always get it back.

 

There is hope in even the smallest things in life. And hope can give you the emotional strength to continue, even in the face of something as frightening as cancer. Reach for it, and let it help you through your whole treatment plan. And all of your life!

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Amanda Berry Rescue Provides New Hope for Other Cases

Last week, 27-year-old Amanda Berry managed to summon help to the home where she, Gina DeJesus, Michelle Knight and Berry’s six-year-old daughter were held captive. Not only were the women rescued, but the authorities later arrested the owner, Ariel Castro, and his two brothers. While this news offers hope to those looking for their own missing loved ones, it also serves a blow to their emotional wellness, opening old wounds that may never fully heal.

According to John Walsh, the former host of America’s Most Wanted who profiled both the Berry and DeJesus cases on his show, the discovery of the women is the ‘most phenomenal ending’ to the story, and highlights the importance of never giving up hope. Walsh commented, ‘The not knowing is the worst. It’s torture. But many, many times it’s up to the parents to keep their children’s names in the public eye. And every now and then we get lucky.’

Another such ‘phenomenal ending’ was possible for Jaycee Dugard, who was abducted at age 11 in 1991 and kept in the backyard of a California couple’s home for 18 years. Dugard was rescued in 2009 and published her memoir, A Stolen Life, in 2011. In a statement released by her publicist, she noted that the women will need the chance to heal and reconnect with the world, but the ‘human spirit is incredibly resilient.’ She added, ‘This isn’t who they are. It is only what happened to them. … More than ever this reaffirms we should never give up hope.’

But how does it feel when someone else is found, while your loved one’s whereabouts remain unknown? For more than three decades, Karen Kelly has been wondering what happened to her 17-year-old son, Martin “J.R.” Crumblish, after he disappeared after a party in the woods in Dobbs Ferry on May 2, 1981. She said, ‘I saw [the rescue news] last night and my first reaction was, “Maybe there’s still hope in my heart that J.R. can be found alive.”. It was wonderful they found those girls. It really touched my heart.’ Lt. Brian Karst, of the Carmel police, added that in these situations ‘you have to keep an open mind and follow every evidence. Certainly [the Cleveland case] gives you hope and encouragement in terms of a positive outcome.’

Amanda Berry Rescue Provides New Hope for Other Cases

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