Tuesday, May 27, 2014

when someone says they have cancer

How does one respond to someone telling you that they have cancer?
Being a knit shop owner is like being a therapist or a bartender.  Customers share a lot of information and problems with me other than they dropped a stitch.  I listen the best I can without offering advise unless they ask me for that.  The problem is that I am not a therapist.  Sometimes it's difficult for me to take it all in because it has nowhere to go.  I have to absorb it.  I hear that psychiatrist need to see someone just for this reason. Right now it's my cross to bear.  Maybe this is plan laid out for me.
But, what do I say to someone who tells me that they have cancer.

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