Gettin Breast Cancer Online Support
July 30th, 2008 by Roselyn Capen
Going through the misery of breast cancer and the tiredness associated with its treatment can easily make you give up hope. You will feel lonesome even in presence of your family since they’ll treat you as a fragile object sometimes, at other times, insensitively. What you really need is some understanding, which only people who have suffered what you have can give you.
There are, for such terrible times, support groups which have been started by women who know exactly how you feel and know just want you need. These groups not only let you interact with breast cancer victims and survivors from across the world, but also give you priceless information on your cancer and treatment, because they combine experience with research.
Susan G. Komen’s breast cancer support organization, cms.komen.org, has its own research team which works very hard to provide better treatment options for you, along with information and news updates on cancer research, and countless breast cancer victims and activists who tend to you and your problems like your best friend would. Breast cancer support, bcsupport.org, has chat rooms which give you a platform to meet women who can understand your fears and women who are going through or have gone through the same emotions you go through.
Two breast cancer victims started breastcancersupport.org in 1988, realizing the lack of importance the society attached to breast cancer and its victims’ needs. Another group, y-me.org, has the sole objective of not letting you feel you are alone. Do you now realize how many people, who will not treat you as aliens, want to help you?
By interacting with the many women who have survived the disease, you will see your mental strength increase ten-folds, and a new ray of hope within you. You will come to love these women; they will be your friends in the worst phase of your life, and you’ll want to volunteer helping out other women like yourself! This will give you an unprecedented determination to defeat your cancer!
Not only do these organizations give you emotional support, if you are financially insecure, they make donations for your treatments, which are entirely voluntary. Your only decision is to ask for help in this matter, and you will find a whole new world of love and affection.
- Posted in Women