Battling Cancer, an article posted at AARP

[Jo]

The doctors at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York had no choice but to remove the patient’s gallbladder and part of her liver, both riddled with cancer. They started her on chemotherapy in the hope of eradicating any renegade cancer cells left behind. Then they offered her something radical: a course in meditation.

“At least once a day I find a quiet time to meditate,” says the 66-year-old woman from Astoria, N.Y., who asked that her name not be used because her mother hasn’t been told she has cancer. “I don’t know how I would have survived without it.” When her thoughts stray into the dark woods of her deepest fears—that the cancer will roar back, that she’ll die, leaving her husband, her children, her beloved grandchildren—she uses meditation to calm her mind and loosen the knot of dread in the pit of her stomach. “I know it’s made life much more bearable,” she says.




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[jycemrsh]

It is really touching that the woman had to battle cancer on her own, it's not that her near and dear ones are not with her but she doesn't want them to be worried about her. Science has progressed a lot from the olden times but there is something that hasn't changed. It is very difficult to face your near and dear ones when you got to hide the fact that you will have to leave them and go sometime soon. We just fall short of words when such incidents come to light.