Is it just me…but since ive recently been diagnosed with bc songs on the radio for exsmple ‘im a survivor’ destinys child and “gotta get thru this” daniel beddingfield were played on the radio one after the other when cancer popped into my head. tv adverts about life insurance, posters and pages on facebook with quotes and sayings about being strong and positive its all gonna be alright seems to be pointing out the cancer. Am i paranoid? Has anyone else experienced this. I feel a bit silly asking but im curious to know if this is how others have felt xx
No ur not paranoid. I have noticed the same. It’s just everday stuff that you wouldn’t normally notice but now everything is heightened and just reminds you of your situation. Stay strong and let the lovely people on this forum support you through
Sam xxxx
Thanks sam Its just all so surreal…i cant settle or get my head round it. When it pops up in my head im physically shaking. I feel cold all over.
Im in the middle of being diagnosed and still having tests. I dont know if im coming or going yet. CT scan and MRI left for next week xx
Hi madamjojohunt
There is too much going on in the world for brain to take it in so we have a thing called a reticular activating system - ras. What the ras does is lets through stuff that interests us so your subconscious lets through a things about cancer because at the moment that is of interest. You might have experienced the feeling before if you got a new car. Suddenly you notice the number of cars the same as yours. So you are certainly not paranoid. It’s just your ras doing its work!
Boa
Hi boa
wow yes that makes sense! Funny you say about cars because last may we bought an old mini and since then been going to mini shows and events and always seeing ads and mini’s about.
Id rather the mini’s though then the c word and what comes with it.
Love
jo x
I found it a musical journey…pre op contractors working on the hospital roof played that wailing song"don’t wana be all by myself…" which i found rather funny and inappropriate at the same time, woke from op to “6 oclock already i was just in the middle of a dream” magic monday by the bangles, said i was in pain before going into a morphine haze…but the track which made me cry out loud was “one is the loneliest number” which was on some mans deoderant ad over the summer…
I think heightened emotions make us tune in and tune out more during stressful times.
Seabreeze x
Ha, before I went to see the surgeon I had 'its the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine 'stuck in my head!
Xx
The coffee shop near the hospital I had radiotherapy at had a special blackboard outside advertising “Rad coffee” - wowie - was that specially for me I wondered every day as I roamed by to treatment!
And don’t get me going on Cadburys mis-shapes!
Xxx