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This article is about 8 months old. It is about cancer, and reporting on cancer, and having cancer. (I say this so as not to potentially surprise trigger someone.) I have reasons for posting this now. Unsurprisingly, it is written by a cancer survivor who is in remission. There are a couple of things that stand out in it for me, but I will highlight just this one:
Those of us who become cancer survivors don't live on because we fought bravely; those of us who die from cancer don't perish because we didn't fight bravely enough.
The links from and about Lisa Bonchek Adams in the article are also very worth reading.
http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2015/12/07/458824962/why-cancer-is-gone-discourse-doesn-t-help-cancer-patients?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social
http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2015/12/07/458824962/why-cancer-is-gone-discourse-doesn-t-help-cancer-patients?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social
This article is about 8 months old. It is about cancer, and reporting on cancer, and having cancer. (I say this so as not to potentially surprise trigger someone.) I have reasons for posting this now. Unsurprisingly, it is written by a cancer survivor who is in remission. There are a couple of things that stand out in it for me, but I will highlight just this one:
Those of us who become cancer survivors don't live on because we fought bravely; those of us who die from cancer don't perish because we didn't fight bravely enough.
The links from and about Lisa Bonchek Adams in the article are also very worth reading.
http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2015/12/07/458824962/why-cancer-is-gone-discourse-doesn-t-help-cancer-patients?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social
http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2015/12/07/458824962/why-cancer-is-gone-discourse-doesn-t-help-cancer-patients?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social
My mother calls her cancer chronic now rather than acute. And I refer to her treatment as maintenance chemo.
ReplyDeleteI don't mean to stomp on the people who need nauseating cheerfulness or "good fights" to survive. I mean, if it's your thing and you are doing it for you, fine. But don't impose it on others. It isn't everyone's thing and you need to listen, and let people be where they are, and just back the * bleep * off, Bridget. Get a grip. Otherwise, I may have to sic John Novak on them. (O hai. Do you have an hourly rate?)
ReplyDeleteIf you need to raise a posse, I am handy with a pitchfork since my youth on the farm, and highly motivated after my mother spent literally decades with cancer reappearing to gobble another bite of her body, until it finally got her brain stem. Don't anyone play the "You too can beat cancer!" tune when I am around.
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