I hope to remember this passage:

The plague of prolonged illness is the constant tendency one has toward self-pity.  It is an affliction that I try harder to reject than the physical pains which, in spite of everything, daily intensify.  While I believe that 90 percent of the battle resides in one’s positive state of mind and a strong determination to win, willpower and mood are constantly undermined by cancer.  It erodes not only the body but dignity and self-respect.  The most difficult art to perfect is the art of being ill gracefully.