On Fear

My 36 year old friend is having open heart surgery today and understandably was very fearful. I told him to look at it this way: he is going to have a difficult surgery, but then he will recover and he will be done. He will be fine and his life will go on. I told him to try to compare it to cancer surgery, where often times the surgery is just the beginning of the journey. I'm not sure if I made him feel better, but I'm pretty sure it gave him something to think about.

It is amusing how the cancer experience makes you feel like you are some kind of sage and qualified to dispense life lessons on everything (well, at least it does me, but I was bossy to begin with...)

I am going in for surgery at the end of the month, so I'm kind of writing this as a note to self to read later! (Not cancer surgery, but I'm still frightened.)

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