Mesothelioma Support - Peritoneal Mesothelioma Patient Stays Positive
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A current peritoneal mesothelioma patient offers support and encouragement to others facing a mesothelioma diagnosis.
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Video Transcript: Mesothelioma Support - Peritoneal Mesothelioma Patient Stays Positive
Well I think a lot of my positivity comes from family, and it comes from praying an awful lot and keeping yourself busy with life itself, not the depressing. Depressing and saying the word "depression" makes you feel that. So I don’t even incorporate those words into my vocabulary. My words are great, wonderful, awesome, severe: those kind of words. Those are words that I use in order to give myself the ability to raise up every morning even though I might be in pain. And I go, "Uh, well I have to take a pill this morning," and I just keep going, and I don’t think about the disease unless somebody asks me about it. I know I have it in the back of my brain, my mind. I know it’s there, but I push it back to the back, and I keep all the positive things that I live for to the front. When I need to go back there and get it, I retrieve it. Or I go, oh, you know what I remember something, yeah, I remember when I, yeah I remember that…but then I have to remember it because I keep it back here. The further it is back there, the more of it you forget. I think that is the way you survive.... is you forget about it. You don’t let it be in your present life. You just forget about it. It hurt while it was there; it was painful. I don’t think people realize what you have you to go through in order to get to certain degrees. But you live through it, you survive it, and you push it back. You make it go away, and you forget about it. You got other things to think about: your children, your grandchildren, me putting out my flowers, digging my garden, talking to friends, planning an eat-a-thon with a movie or something. Those are things that bring me positive things. Friendship, camaraderie, challenging my sister, getting on her bad side, making her arghhh…you know, those kinds of things brings me joy. And that way I stay positive, and I don’t think about meso back here; I don’t think about it, unless somebody asks me about it, like today.
