A Rant of Sorts
Surely, I'm not the only one with a friend or family member who is supportive but also keeps peddling their own solution for your condition?
Like, I appreciate the support but please, stop reminding me that I have a chronic, incurable disease and NO, I don't want to do a cleanse, take supplement, read your book, or take the advice of your best friend's cousin's momma who had some other type of cancer and managed it some kind of way. I'd like to take the advice of my oncologist who presently recommends that I live a healthy lifestyle and try not to exacerbate my condition.
Case in point: my mother is a worry-wort, a control freak, and conspiratorially minded. She insists that I need to take a combination two particularly divisive anti-helminthics because she's convinced it'll help. And I need to read the book she's sending me. And she has a podcast I need to listen to. And why am I resisting her on this? I have tried to assuage her concerns by explaining that the statistics behind lymphoma and proven treatment are in my favor. And in fact, I don't even have to do anything just yet.
I finally got fed up and told her that someday, when she has her very own cancer, she can treat it anyway she sees fit and I'll support her decisions. Until then, I'm a grownup who is capable of making informed decisions and I'm going to listen to the professionals. Thank you.
Surely, I'm not the only person who deals with this? It's extremely frustrating.