Registers of choice and fate
Registers are interesting
repositories of information indicating where you might belong, in a class, with
a group, by choice or automatically. Your curiosity about registers is to determine
what is stored about you and could correct incorrect or changed information.
It starts with
birth registrations that include your full name, the names and occupations
of your parents, when and where you were born, and the day the entry was placed in the
register.
With life,
you will probably have to register a birth, a marriage, and a death, the first and
last is usually done by someone else. In school, you might end up on a register
with a roll call to determine who is present or absent. As an adult where any semblance
of a democracy exists, we might say a voters’ register.
Another register that
matters to me is predicated on religious faith; being in the Lamb’s Book of Life having
accepted Jesus Christ as my lord and Saviour. “Nothing evil will be allowed to enter,
nor anyone who practices shameful idolatry and dishonesty—but only those whose names
are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.” (NLT) [BibleHub: Revelation 21:27]
Not this register at any
time
In my meeting last week,
it was said in passing and I heard the nurse right; it was one register to which I
would never have wanted my name appended, and my utmost desire is to be taken off
that register with the testimony of an all-clear having had a prior proof of a diagnosis.
Yes, there is a National Cancer Registration and
Analysis Service and with a cancer diagnosis, the person is automatically registered, to track how cancer is managed nationally. You can seek with apparent difficulty to have your information
removed by opting out. [CRUK:
What is cancer registration?]
While I would rather not
answer present if my name is called out of this register, I appreciate that when
it comes to cancer treatment, the book of knowledge that is brought to bear on any
new diagnosis comes from the long trail of studies, treatments, observations, and
the lives of those who succumbed to the disease and the many who survived too.
Registered for better
outcomes
That is why when in a consulting room, I welcome students to participate in the conversation.
I engage them fully and try to paint a picture of how some of the wonders of progressive developments
in medicine, have helped deal with disease that once was a life sentence but is manageable
for some, curable for others, or controllable for many.
Sometimes, the prospects
and options for dealing with men’s things when biopsies return positive results
can be daunting. My decision is not to dwell on this but to encourage myself with
messages about healing, living, wellness, and strength.
What I do with the knowledge
of a cancer diagnosis is everything, and what I intend to have, is a better story
than what any prognosis suggests. The first step to this is checking on your men’s
things, going for the requisite tests, attending all appointments to discuss any
issues and giving yourself the early fighting chance of knowing you have the choice
of a possible cure.
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