Comments on: Pushing The Edge http://talkingaboutcancer.com/archives/16 Helping with the emotional impact of cancer. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:15:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Russ McGowan http://talkingaboutcancer.com/archives/16#comment-11 Russ McGowan Sun, 09 Sep 2007 01:04:22 +0000 http://talkingaboutcancer.com/archives/16#comment-11 Hi Ruth. Thank you for your involvement in the talkingaboutcancer.com website. We can all benefit from your experience in having been diagnosed over 7 years ago, and where you are now in your life. One of your articles on this site is called "miles and miles of milestones" and that pretty much sums things up. As every long-distance runner knows, you start small and build slowly over a long period of time. Next thing you know, you are running a mile, then a 5k, then 10k, and next thing you know you are considering what at one time would have seemed an impossibility, a half-marathon. Though I am fortunate in my good health, I really identify with your running, having experienced going from worrying I was having a heart attack after 5 minutes of running, to training for and successfully running multiple marathons. It is truly amazing what the human body can do, and what is even more amazing is what a positive attitude can do in dealing with and recovering from cancer. It is truly uplifting to see how many milestones you have successfully passed in the 7 years since your initial diagnosis. Thank you for sharing your experiences. Russ McGowan September 2007 Hi Ruth. Thank you for your involvement in the talkingaboutcancer.com website. We can all benefit from your experience in having been diagnosed over 7 years ago, and where you are now in your life.

One of your articles on this site is called “miles and miles of milestones” and that pretty much sums things up. As every long-distance runner knows, you start small and build slowly over a long period of time. Next thing you know, you are running a mile, then a 5k, then 10k, and next thing you know you are considering what at one time would have seemed an impossibility, a half-marathon.

Though I am fortunate in my good health, I really identify with your running, having experienced going from worrying I was having a heart attack after 5 minutes of running, to training for and successfully running multiple marathons.

It is truly amazing what the human body can do, and what is even more amazing is what a positive attitude can do in dealing with and recovering from cancer.

It is truly uplifting to see how many milestones you have successfully passed in the 7 years since your initial diagnosis.

Thank you for sharing your experiences.

Russ McGowan
September 2007

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