Suffering is physical, emotional, and mental.
Having cancer is extremely stressful. If you’ve had cancer, you know this in your bones. If you haven’t, then while you suspect this is true, you don’t have a “feel” for how extensive it is.
It doesn’t matter what cancer treatments we had, none of them are easy, and they leave permanent marks on us physically, emotionally, and mentally — the nausea, the debilitating pain, the feeling of being torn inside. While many of the details will fade over time, the harder ones are tattooed on our skin and engraved in our minds. Sometimes flashbacks wake us up at night.
