From the Colorectal Cancer Network
Building Hope
"If you only read one book, if you only read one persons story, make it Bob Vandergrift's "My Home Is In The House Of Cancer" and "Cancer Strategies" cancerstrategies.info. Especially if you are diagnosed at a late stage, ask for a phone partner - talk to them at least once. It is amazing how much falls into perspective when you are talking with someone who survived very closely your own situation. Then when you are successfully through treatment turn back and become a phone partner for those coming down the colon cancer path after you.
Plant a flower that won't come up until two seasons from now. The act of doing that plants the subconscious belief in your mind that you will be here to see it come up."