POSITIVE THINKING

Family and friends and my medical team know that I believe that positive thinking has helped me to survive the terrible prognosis I was given 7 years ago and that is partially why I am here today.I know that this is not enough on it's own to win the fight with cancer but for me it has enabled me to take more control of my life and to believe that I will get through it, I will beat this thing and that's what keeps me going.

I was asked to tell my story on the Andrew Peach Show on Radio WM and to say how positive thinking and hope had helped me. I had no other briefing, so at 8am one Sunday morning I did a live interview with Andrew down the phone.It was all over in less than 2 minutes and if I had know it was going to be that short I would been more concise and done it differentlly, but I did manage to say that I believed that positive thinking is why I am still here today.A lady rang up to say that she felt that I was wrong to say this, because other people who try to be positive and don't do so well feel they have failed and I guess I can appreciate her point, but I still stick by what I believe.

Last Thursday at our Solihull Cancer Support Group a lovely clinical cancer nurse who has been supporting cancer patients for 7 years gave a wonderful speech and told us how nurses and oncologists are deeply affected by many of their patients and she showed us that there is a very human and compassionate side to the medical team who care for us cancer patients which they cannot always show. At the end of her speech I asked her the question "In one word what would you say was the most important thing in this fight with cancer?" She replied "POSITIVENESS" !