After recovering from and surviving thyroid cancer last year, I am wanting to look and feel healthy again. I have always been a "summertime" tanner and would like to go to the tanning bed again. The problem? I am being made to feel guilty since I am "predisposed" to cancer. I am very grateful for being "cured" of cancer. Does it seem like a slap in the face of fate if I go tanning?
This may seem like a very irrelevant question, but I am really struggling with the view that others have. As if I am squandering away my gift of a second chance. Does this make sense to anyone else? Do you have those feelings of guilt now that you have survived cancer?
I just want to feel and look good again, and occasionally tanning makes me feel good; it is so relaxing!!
Thanks all for your response. It helps to hear from others who have gone through similar experiences.
Pamela