The Tiger in the Corner
The Tiger in the Corner One of the doctors I see at the Cancer Center for Healing in Irvine (Von Schaefer) describes my situation like having a Tiger in the Corner. You can ’ t take your eyes off of it; it needs constant attention. She claims it is all about diet and mental state for lymphomas and leukemias. This analogy is helping me conceptualize where I ’ m at right now. I struggle to justify what it seems to take for me to keep this tiger tamed and quietly sitting in the corner. As I ’ ve explained before, this lymphoma is supposed to be a “ wild fire cancer. ” It isn ’ t behaving as such in my case – hopefully all I am doing for it, and all the prayer on my behalf, is why. I have just completed 2 months of working full-time, traveling for work and family, living with dear friends, and essentially hoping the tiger was tamed sufficiently enough that I could do all I have been doing without it pouncing. I haven ’ t kept up on much of the regimen I ’ ve learned...