[Magdalen] As long as we're confessing stuff...

[cady soukup]

Molly,

>From a distance in space and concept, offering prayers and virtual
hugs. In my limited experience of depression, recognizing and owning
it is hard, and it is harder and even more difficult to request help,
especially when combined with the rampaging physical symptoms you are
experiencing with chemo and radiation and cancer.

May god find you where you are in the form of living, breathing,
caring, gentle persons whose assistance is acceptable to you exactly
as you are.

gently,

Cady

On 4/22/17, Molly Wolf <lupa at kos.net> wrote:
> ... I'm struggling with depression.  It's long been my bugbear, but it's
> pretty bad right now.  I started radiation last Tuesday, and I think I'm
> starting to have radiation fatigue piled on top of the pre-existing chemo
> fatigue.  As radiation fatigue is cumulative and I've got another 26 doses
> to go, this is scary: am I going to be able to manage?  Also, it's been a
> long, slow, cold and rainy spring. And I've been ill since November, when I
> had my mastectomy.
>
> When I express worry about my long-term prospects, people keep telling me to
> buck up and expect the best.  This is not helpful in depression.
>
> There.  Said it.
>
> Molly
>
> The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no
> other way. -- Mark Twain
>