After therapies have been completed, some people feel a desire to do something to speed the healing. For example, put medicated cream on stitches…or take a fistful of supplements Wait! Before you do something, find out whether doing it will help or harm.
As an analogy, after you pour cake batter into a pan and then put it in the oven, you need to leave it alone. Go clean the mixing bowl. Or watch Patience, a fabulous PBS series. Just don’t try to speed the baking by, say, turning up the heat or opening the oven door to check on the progress.
After a medical intervention is done, the body continues the healing process. As a Healthy Survivor, honor the wisdom of your body. Refrain from jeopardizing recovery with unnecessary or potentially harmful interventions. Take comfort in knowing that “doing nothing” is NOT doing nothing. Like bakers standing guard by the oven so nobody messes with their half-baked cakes, you are giving your cells and tissues the time they need to do the work of healing.
