How do you cope with a major illness?
This was the first topic of conversation in Episode 23, and it was inspired by our *inspirational* guest, Eileen Kaplan.
Eileen is a cancer survivor (or “cancer thriver” as she puts it), and her coping method – after a good cry with her husband – was humor. (Eileen went on to write the book Laughter is the Breast Medicine.)
Have you dealt with a major illness? (And if so, how did you cope?)
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Thank God I have never had to face this issue (yet) – but my own bias is to not to go gently into that good night – I would hope I would rage, rage against the sabotaging infliction with a kamakaze attitude of kill it or, literally, be killed. This flies in the face of accepting that which we cannot control, and yet again, few roses will be sniffed, but I have those who raged and those who caved – raging seems to sustain, even unto failure, better than letting go…but what do I know?