How do you cope with cancer?
The answer is really simple.
It’s like when you were a teenager
At prom night with a pimple.

Even though it was the “end of the world”
You managed to live through it.
Just find out what you have to do.
Then go and do it.

And though those things are difficult
Have faith and continue on.
You’ll make it through, the world won’t end
And the cancer will be gone.

I know this sounds too simple
When there’s so much to worry about.
But if you just concentrate on getting well Everything else will work out.
  

       When you’re actually taking chemo
       There’s a silly game you play.
       I call it “In and Out”
       And you play it every day.

       You measure all you drink and pee
       Then write it down for them to see.

       At first it seems an easy game
       No need to take alarm.
       But then they start to flush you out
       So your kidney has no harm.

       Just how often you could go
       Before this game you couldn’t know.

       Almost every hour
       This silly game you play.
       I call it “In and Out”
       And you play it night and day.

        To think of one day dying
        Can be a scary thought.
        To think of what I’ve missed
        Compared to all I’ve got.

        To worry about my family
        And how they will survive.
        Will they have to suffer
        Because I’m not alive?

        But I’ve been quite lucky
        In my life so far.
        Even now with things
        The way they are.

        The cancer I am fighting
        Is going to be cured.
        I know it won’t kill me
        Of this I’m assured.

        I think how faith in living
        Helps me to survive.
        And the thought of one day dying
        Makes me glad to be alive.

             Everyone should have cancer once.
             It makes everything else seem easy.
             You’ll forget in a hurry
             Your everyday worry
             If tomorrow’s the last day you might see.

             But I could never wish such a terrible thing
             For anyone, friend or foe.
             Please listen to me
             You don’t want to be
             The one that didn’t know.

             You can only live once.
             Just one chance to be great.
             So make every day
             Special some way.
             Don’t wait until it’s too late!

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