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[ The Big C ] [ By Knyttet ]
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The Big C
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I was sitting in a waiting room. There were a lot of people around me.
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Everyone looked so calm, so natural. I guess they had all accepted what they
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were going through. That scared me. To accept that something that you don't
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want is breeding in your body. Scary, but great. I guess you have to accept
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it, to learn to live with it, to get well. I was there because of cancer,
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just like the rest of them. But it wasn't me, and it wasn't someone close, I
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was just one nurse following a sick man to the doctor. I felt kind of
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awkward, felt like I didn't have the right to be there, cause what did I know
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about cancer? What did I know about how it felt to see someone you love get
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sick? Nothing.
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I have had my shares of sorrows but none of them due to illness. So what
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could I say to this man I was following. How could I support him? I could
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understand that he thought life is too short to talk about the weather,
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especially in the doctors waiting room.
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I remember how I felt when I started to work among sick people. I was only
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eighteen, and too young to realize that there was a lot in the world that I
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was too young to know about. I didn't understand that I had to little
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experience to comfort this kind of patient.
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I didn't know then, what I have learned today. That it isn't so much what
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you can give, as your ability to take that makes you a god nurse. Even if you
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have suffered from sickness yourself you can never know how it feels for
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someone else, how the illness affects their lives. You've got to learn how to
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listen, how to make people wanna talk to you. Cause this is a way of helping
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them, by letting them tell you, how they feel, make them see that you are
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there and its all right to feel angry, to be sad, or even to feel guilt. And
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from what you hear, you can comfort.
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I know all this now, and I do my very best to find time in my work for
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listening. And I try to always remember that talking I can do everywhere
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else, but when I work I have to listen with all my senses, so I can hear
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those souls screaming to me, begging me, crying for me, or someone, to
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listen.
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