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- W2114859443 abstract "According to sociocultural expectations, after cancer is removed or its spread stopped, people get a chance to continue with their daily lives. According to patients’ experience, the return to ‘normal life’ after having cancer is full of challenges. During post-recovery, or the period that in cancer narratives is often signified as ‘afterwards’, people make attempts to return to their everyday activities, but are still confronted by medical follow-ups and the constant fear of cancer reoccurrence. Returning to normal life or ‘the life before cancer’ may be challenging if not impossible, as the surgeries and other cancer treatments are radical and leave their imprint in the body. Furthermore, the fact of having a life-threatening illness also makes people suffer psychologically. Based on written cancer narratives, which I have analysed in my doctoral thesis (Paal 2010), and online discussions analysed in this article, pain, tiredness, confusion and depression are daily companions for many cancer patients, who are, in the eyes of specialists, cured of their illness and should thus be, according to cultural expectations, healthy again and therefore act accordingly. In this article I observe online discussions on a Finnish cancer forum1 relating to patients’ ideas about “life after cancer”, which is also one of the forum’s subtopics. I suggest that cancer patients compose their written narratives or share their illness experiences online in the hope of offering a different interpretation of the illness experience and thus confronting the culturally agreed image. The main motivation for sharing these personal stories of illness may be interpreted as the cancer patient’s desire to receive some responsive understanding from other people, but also from institutions unfamiliar with cancer experience and its meaning on the individual level. According to Mikhail Bakhtin responsiveness in written texts exists, although “the orientation is not particularised in an independent act and not compositionally marked” (Bakhtin 1981, 280). Bearing Bakhtin’s significant statement in mind, I have selected for examination three aspects relating to life after cancer : (1) when does life after cancer begin; (2) returning to work; and (3) having children after cancer treatments. The first question aims to draw readers’ attention to a socio-culturally ElorE (ISSN 1456-3010), vol. 17 – 2/2010." @default.
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- W2114859443 title "Illness narratives : patients' online discussions about life after cancer" @default.
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