I have NO IDEA what is going on inside me until July, which is super wild to me but I am getting used to it.
I am writing here to share that I am excited to be taking part in a Patient Experience Interview to help shiny brand new med students learn how to talk to cancer patients and to share what it’s like to go through treatment. A very smart doctor is trying to get the incoming future doctors to have their heads screwed on straight when they are walking into conversations with people that are mostly scared out of their minds and probably confused and angry. I get to have a recorded session tomorrow morning and then next month I am understudy in case the primary person they are throwing on stage can’t make it for any reason.
I really enjoy talking about what it’s like to be attacked by your own body and how treatment affected me and why I think I am still here and what I want to do with whatever time I have left. I like to blather on and on about my attempts to be the Most Patient Patient.
I like to try and explain how this disease has more or less burned out my ability to worry. I like to share how the best medical professionals did their best, and what the ones that were not so good could have done differently. I like to tell stories.
This is going to be fun.