Cancer and love
Eithne Dodwell reflects on her experience of cancer and ‘an infinite ocean of light and love’
I was diagnosed in the summer of 2011, quite unexpectedly, with an aggressive breast cancer. It was good timing, in that my husband and I had retired and recently returned from a once in a lifetime visit to New Zealand. It was bad timing in that one of our daughters had just had her first baby, the other was pregnant with hers and my mother’s Parkinson’s was accelerating – all at some distance from us. Curiously, the first few months of my ‘Dance with Cancer’ were a very positive and, in many ways, exciting time. It was surprisingly easy to accept the diagnosis; I don’t remember wondering ‘why me?’; rather, I felt an immediate gratitude that it was happening to me, and not to my daughters, and for the time and care the medical staff spent explaining things to me.
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