The Stigma of Cancer

My wife and I have been honored to be able to provide a home to her mother (age 90)since December 19th of last year. She was doing her exercises faithfully twice a day and she even got to calling me "coach". She was doing great. That is until February 4th when she fell and broke her shoulder. Since that time we've been a bit more busy providing the love and care that she needs, especially now.
Thankfully she qualifies for a physical therapist, occupational therapist, a nurse and a woman to bathe her twice a week. This help is really appreciated for sure.

You can imagine the comings and goings here. We even had a hospital bed delivered as well as a wheel chair.

Well, with us living in a small mid-western town, people notice everything going on. I was at the post office the other day and someone I knew to be a cancer survivor, asked me how I was doing. They meant with my cancer survivor ship. I told her that thanks to proton beam therapy that cancer had not altered my life and that I was doing great.

As I thought about this conversation later in the day, it got me to wondering if there were others in town who thought all of the commotion around here would get anyone to thinking that it was all associated to my cancer.

I do detailing of cars and the phone has been quiet lately. I guess it could be the economy keeping it from ringing, but I just wonder if the stigma of cancer might be the culprit as well. Just thinking. Cancer does have a stigma that you have to get sick and look sick. I never experienced anything like that with protons.

Have a good Monday.
Blessings,
Rick