Things That Help

The only sure cure for a meltdown is time, in my opinion, but here are some things that help make it bearable.

Screaming

Breaking Plates

Retreating From the World

Blogging

Friends Who Understand
(and who DON’T try to cheer you up before you are ready)

Pudding

Escapist Literature
The piles of read-and-discarded books around my bed are growing to serious heights. I need to call the second-hand bookstore and sell a few hundred of these. If not, I soon won’t be able to make it to the bathroom in the middle of the night.

The Company of Animals

@ Jeanne Sather 2007.

Comments

[Joan Hamrick]

Dear Jeanne,

Just discovered your blog site thanks to beyond breast cancer magazine's article re:blogging. Have read several of your blogs and am wondering how I've made it through three years of survivership without you and the other bloggers. I read yours first because I know I'm in need of remedial assertiveness training. Being a nearly terminally nonassertive personality and a born people pleaser can literally become terminal in the cancer journey -- thanks for your sharing and for being so real as you do so. In a few hours I go for an MRI of my head to see why I've been having lots of unexplained headaches. Thanks again for your blogs--hope you're having a really good day!

[jeanne]

Joan--welcome. Please join us. I have made some wonderful friends through my blog, and you are more than welcome.

Are you writing a blog? Thinking about it?

Here is a post you might like:
Cancer Bloggers Join Forces Again: Health and Happiness
http://www.assertivepatient.com/2007/06/cancer_bloggers.html

Most of the bloggers who contributed to that are online friends of mine. A couple of them I have met face to face.

Best.

Jeanne