#3 What We’re Not Telling You ~ Cancer Patient Secrets Series

Sometimes we desperately wish you would talk about literally anything other than cancer. We already think about it all day long. Sometimes, we just need the distraction of a completely normal conversation.

An idea might be to create a “no cancer” safe word. When you say it, all medical talk stops immediately, and everyone must talk about something easy like gossip, TV shows, or what the dog did today.

This is number 3 in a series of things caregivers and loved ones really need to hear, even if we don’t always have the courage to say them out loud. The unfiltered truth about what we are going through.