The Ghosts of Cancer That Haunt Us

I think of supporting our cancer patients and survivors who have dealt with the Ghosts of Cancer by showing how we can deal with our own Ghosts of cancer to our cancer patients and survivors. When they are experiencing cancer and grieving losing their relationship with their spouses, siblings, and family members or losing someone who had cancer, it can be very painful. 

What is something I have lost or experienced through thyroid cancer that haunts me? After I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in June 2020 three and a half years ago, my life and my whole world was turned upside down. It spiraled as I felt negative things that haunt me. After I found out about my thyroid cancer diagnosis, I did deal with worry, loss for words, feeling lost in my faith in God, lonely, very depressed, deep sadness, and feeling angry after being diagnosed with thyroid cancer. I was feeling isolated, from my friends, and lost both my jobs due to COVID. During my thyroid cancer treatment for radioactive iodine treatment for my thyroid cancer I did deal a lot with scan anxiety. After being in full remission from thyroid cancer for three and a half years now I have realized that I need God to help me a lot by giving me peace. God helped me a lot to face my own fears over thyroid cancer. He can help me by overcoming my fears over thyroid cancer because God has taught me how to stay positive, by focusing on God, and putting my trust in God because He has helped me not to lose faith in Jesus. He is my only focus, not focusing on the storm, the trials, and the fears over thyroid cancer. 

I think it is important that God has shown me that I should always put my trust on Jesus because He will bring the peace, and to see how far we have Overcome when we go through storms, my trials, the fears, worry, and depression during my cancer journey, cancer treatments, losing someone from cancer, or losing our loved ones from a broken relationship. I just wanted to share how important it is to share with others who are going through their cancer journey and treatments when they know someone who just got diagnosed with cancer, when they lose their loved ones, friends, siblings, and family members from cancer. Losing someone from a broken relationship can makes us really feel lost, lonely, isolated, unwanted, unloved, depression, and deep sadness. That is when we are struggling with our own ghosts of cancer and our own Survivor’s Guilt, by worrying, having fear, and feeling the ghosts of cancer that haunt us.

I think it is important to have people in our lives who support us physically, emotionally, and spiritually who are going through their cancer journey and going through cancer treatments. It is really sad to see the person that we love going through their cancer journey and treatments and having the experience with their mixed emotions and grieving when someone we know that we have lost from cancer. It can get very frustrating, lost of words, lost, anger, sadness, worry, and fear from going through this cancer scare. 

I think it is OK to ask ourselves the questions, “Why Me?” or “Why Does This Person Have To Go Through This Cancer Scare?” We all do struggle with our own Ghosts of cancer and our own Survivor’s Guilt. After I was diagnosed with papillary carcinoma thyroid cancer it did leave me without words, but I had all the support, and all the love from the people in my life who encouraged me, prayed for me. When I didn’t get the love and the support from some of the people in my life it can makes me feel isolated, unwanted, unloved, lonely, and never gotten to celebrate a cancerversary milestones. It can makes us feel hurtful, sadness, and it can be really hard when people will break our hearts, and they can always judge us and criticized us. 

Sometimes I wish people in my life they could’ve been really supportive to me and to be proud of me as a Christian, and as a thyroid cancer and sharing with others who are going through cancer journey and going through cancer treatment. I am sharing my thyroid cancer story and my testimony by showing how God has given me the opportunity by sharing about overcoming my fears over thyroid cancer to show people who are going through cancer journey and going through cancer treatment. God has taught me with my confidence about being confident on my scar on my neck and about my faith in God by sharing with others who are struggling with their own experience with their fears, mixed emotions, feeling the ghosts of cancer and feeling the Survivor’s Guilt.

I have also learned how God wants me to feel confident about my scars, be more grateful for what I have been through with my own experience with thyroid cancer, and the ghosts of thyroid cancer that haunts me. God has really taught me by learning how I can be more appreciated about my scar. Your scars and experiences show you how far you have Overcome in your own battles with cancer. 

I stay focused on my faith in Jesus, stay positive, and don’t lose hope. After going through total thyroidectomy, and going through thyroid cancer treatment four years ago, I have felt and appreciated all the love, encouragement, and prayers, and have a loving thyroid cancer support group who have been there for me. 

I am truly blessed to be alive and know that God has really given me the opportunity to share my thyroid cancer story and my testimony to others who are going through a cancer journey and going through cancer treatment. God is allowing me to share my victory and how strong I am in my faith. I choose Faith over Fear.

With the Ghosts of Cancer, my mixed emotions when I am trying to place the blame on myself or someone in my life who isn’t supportive to me in my thyroid cancer journey, I am letting it go and giving it to God. I think it is important that we should always love and support our AYA community members with cancer. Grieving and some counseling for them when they lose their loved ones who had cancer or losing their relationship with someone is important. We need to be more kind, loving, encouraging by making them feel welcome. I think it is important that we should always forgive ourselves and others. It is OK not to be okay about negative thoughts by not allowing the lies of the enemy to steal their joy, their happiness, and all the blessings that God has given to us. I think it is important to all AYA cancer patients and survivors to stay strong, and Be BRAVE. 

To everyone who is facing cancer to share their stories and our testimonials to allow us to have the opportunity to help others to understand what it means to feel less alone in their cancer journey. It’s important to find a moral support group that supports you physically, emotionally, and spiritually with your own journey by telling others who are facing cancer and who have survived cancer they aren’t alone. I think we all need to be more loving, welcoming, kind, caring, and understanding on what we are all going through in a cancer journey. After I went through my own experience with thyroid cancer journey I like to share my testimony because I am not ashamed. It makes me feel less alone when I have my Thytabono support group when I was going through thyroid cancer journey, total thyroidectomy surgery, going through radioactive iodine treatment for my thyroid cancer treatment, and learn how to support all cancer patients and survivors and how I can be a self advocate about thyroid cancer to cancer patients and survivors.