So one of my readers recently pointed out a cancer blogsite to me. The coincidence was stunning: the author of this other site apparently decided to start blogging about cancer almost exactly the same time I did, and she is also a professor. Hers is more like a professional website than a blog--she's currently featuring a competition, for example. She, too, describes the phenomenon of looking at her bald head in the mirror and realizing she had a giant scar running down her skull....and all this within days of my own posts on the experience.
Now, I could be a cynic and say that it's a bit too much of a coincidence. At the same time, however, one of the things that has repeatedly struck me throughout this process has been realizing how many times our own experiences, thoughts, and perceptions are replicated--sometimes almost verbatim--in other people. How could they not be? There are billions of people in the world, and we're all put together in pretty similar ways. How different can our experiences be?
Still, I'm a little freaked out by it--and especially by the proximity of her posts to mine. It's disorienting to imagine that maybe someone out there is doing and thinking and writing exactly the same things as you, maybe even at the same time as you. It's like having a doppelganger, only worse, because she's much prettier than you.
Here's her website:
http://www.chemobabe.com/chemobabe/Welcome.html
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That is so random!! I first found the blog on Twitter via @thatdrew, the founder of BlameDrewsCancer. I looked around her site, read a few of her blogs but I didn't pay attention to dates though. I think that you guys blogging about your treatments and experience with cancer is inspiring. It is common to find a blog about cancer now-a-days, but to find one that is about the same thing on the same day is kinda weird, I do have to say. But it also shows us that there is someone just like you going through the same thing and that you're not alone. Someone who can actually say, "I know exactly how you feel" because they have felt it.
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