Breast Cancer awareness is a subject that many people do not even think about until they or someone close to them find out that they have breast cancer. My wife has breast cancer and is now hopefully cured, however until it happened to us, I was a perfect example of what I am talking about in this article.I was aware that people around me had to deal with breast cancer. In fact two of my friends wives had breast cancer and were dealing with it as best they could in their families. I was naturally concerned and sympathetic, however there was really nothing I could do, I thought!
It turns out that I was a good listener and that helps, however I really did not have any idea about the emotions that my friends and their wives were going through. The waiting to find out the diagnoses, the waiting for scheduling of appointments and surgeries is almost unbearable. This is really the hardest part for many people, however if you are not going through it, you just do not know. We found the best thing for us to do was to talk a lot about breast cancer and to do things that take your mind off the situation you are dealing with.