Last October I wrote about the five common stages most newly diagnosed cancer patients experience following their diagnosis. I feel it is worth another look:
In the book, Everyone's Guide to Cancer Therapy, Malin Dollinger, M.D, and Bernard Dubrow, M.S., describe the five stages of living with mortality. According to Dollinger and Dubrow, "When faced with the threat of death or dying, many patients and their families turn for understanding and guidance to the highly regarded work of Dr Elisabeth Kubler-Ross." Dr Ross is famous for defining five stages of mourning; denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. But the authors stress that this model may not apply to newly diagnosed cancer patients because they have been told that they have a "potentially" fatal illness that may or may not be imminent. Dollinger and Dubrow feel that disbelief, discovery, redirection, resolution and emerging victorious more accurately apply in this case.
I like number five: Emerging Victorious!
Feel good and keep smiling! Pat
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"Dollinger and Dubrow feel that disbelief, discovery, redirection, resolution and emerging victorious more accurately apply in this case."
That's good advice Pat, I have been through those stages.
Disbelief: I told the doctor he was wrong!
Discovery: I had to discover what I had.
Redirection: My life had to change, I had to redirect my efforts into teatment and healing.
Resolution: I resolved I was to be a cancer survivor.
Emerging victorious. I did.
Keep up the good work.
Sid
Thank's Sid! Always nice to hear from our friend in New Zealand! Pat
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