― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 6 February 2003 13:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
KANCA BUN DAT FASS, SEEN
― g.cannon (gcannon), Thursday, 6 February 2003 14:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
yeah, fuck it. so sorry to hear of your friend's death, colin.
― JuliaA (j_bdules), Thursday, 6 February 2003 15:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
And my best friend died a year ago from breast cancer. She was hardly Mrs High Risk - she lived the healthiest lifestyle of anyone I know, full of organically home-grown vegetables and lots of exercise. But she died anyway, painfully, tearfully, bloated from the steroid treatment she was subjected to - leaving behind a bewildered and desolate husband and two little boys who are so young they will probably never actually remember their mother.
So yes, I'm angry. It's good to rail against this terrible disease, to shout and cry and pound your fists into the pillow at the awful unfairness of it. Letting anger out helps to make you feel better. I just wish it could bring our loved ones back, too, because I'd give anything to be able to have that happen.
I know you don't want cyber hugs, but I'm sending them to you anyway Colin. And to anyone else who needs one right now.
― C J (C J), Thursday, 6 February 2003 15:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 6 February 2003 18:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
To Cancer: Fuck you, you fucking fuck! May you spontaneously combust and your genes die out!
― -M, Thursday, 6 February 2003 18:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 7 February 2003 13:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― suzy (suzy), Friday, 7 February 2003 14:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 7 February 2003 14:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
But a father still lost a daughter, two sisters lost a third sister, and a husband lost a wife before she even had a chance to become a mother. It happened 18 months ago but it doesn't go away - still dominates my entire life.
Colin, it stinks and it stinks and it stinks. You know I know how it feels, you've read CoM, you've seen the M&L threads here - I will try and email you if I can find a moment. Or just email me. Rant away as voraciously as you want. It's what needs to be done.
(I just re-read my ILE posts abt Laura's illness - my writing looks so damned clinical, so matter-of-fact. It belies what was going on inside me)
― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 7 February 2003 14:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
After about five years in remission I stopped going for yearly inpatient week-long batteries of tests. After about 10 years I stopped going for outpatient one-day batteries of tests. You're considered in remission until you've been free of cancer for 20 or 25 years. I don't worry about it coming back, but I don't allow myself overexposure to sun in high summer.
― suzy (suzy), Friday, 7 February 2003 14:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 7 February 2003 14:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 7 February 2003 15:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
― JuliaA (j_bdules), Friday, 7 February 2003 15:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 7 February 2003 15:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Vic (Vic), Friday, 7 February 2003 15:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
My mum has had it twice over the last 10 years but knock on wood will remain in remission.
― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 7 February 2003 15:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 February 2003 16:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 February 2003 16:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 7 February 2003 16:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 February 2003 16:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Friday, 7 February 2003 16:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
Troubling is how you've said, it's herditary and mh, I only have one brother, who's always been able to skip the illness in our family ( only I inherited my father's phlegmatic temperament - we get colds too often! - apparently). But I'm ready, after all those scientific peopole should be doing something about this cancer thing by 2040, hopefully!!
― Vic (Vic), Friday, 7 February 2003 17:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 February 2003 18:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― naked as sin (naked as sin), Saturday, 8 February 2003 01:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― naked as sin (naked as sin), Saturday, 8 February 2003 04:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 9 February 2003 13:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
― xxx, Sunday, 28 December 2003 13:10 (twenty years ago) link
But yeah, cancer. Fuck you, you miserable bastard. And to those of you who have also been negatively affected by this terrible thing, my sympathies, condolences, well wishes, admiration, etc.
― Tenacious Dee (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 28 December 2003 20:18 (twenty years ago) link
― todd swiss (eliti), Sunday, 28 December 2003 22:23 (twenty years ago) link
its funny because i never get the flu and barely get colds, but i get cancer twice by the time i am 21.
i dont worry though.
― todd swiss (eliti), Friday, 26 March 2004 09:00 (twenty years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Friday, 26 March 2004 09:51 (twenty years ago) link
― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 26 March 2004 10:18 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Friday, 26 March 2004 10:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 26 March 2004 10:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Friday, 26 March 2004 10:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Friday, 26 March 2004 10:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 26 March 2004 10:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 26 March 2004 11:59 (twenty years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Friday, 26 March 2004 12:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 26 March 2004 13:28 (twenty years ago) link
ok, well, the doc says he is 99 percent sure of cancer again, so i think that he knows what he is talking about.
― todd swiss (eliti), Friday, 26 March 2004 17:19 (twenty years ago) link
Very sorry to hear this news Todd!!
― jel -- (jel), Friday, 26 March 2004 17:27 (twenty years ago) link
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Friday, 26 March 2004 17:32 (twenty years ago) link
― JuliaA (j_bdules), Friday, 26 March 2004 17:42 (twenty years ago) link
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 26 March 2004 17:42 (twenty years ago) link
― todd swiss (eliti), Friday, 26 March 2004 17:54 (twenty years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 26 March 2004 17:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Friday, 26 March 2004 20:28 (twenty years ago) link
Thank you, Plasmon. Cancer really doesn't give a fuck what you drink or eat or smoke - it can happen whatever you do, whoever you are. Obviously, certain habits don't exactly help. I'm trying to keep my friend away from possibly-spurious studies, 'hippie shit' and the like. I'm trusting his luck in being treated at the UK's best hospital for prostate cancer (a world leader in oncology in a science-university town) and he's hoping it's not so urgent that he has to have an op now, as opposed to waiting until after the summer/harvest season on which his work depends. Tuesday is news day, so...
― baked beings on toast (suzy), Sunday, 20 April 2014 15:17 (ten years ago) link
Best of luck, Morbs
― 龜, Sunday, 20 April 2014 15:43 (ten years ago) link
Best of luck, Morbs. Allow me to offer you 25 links why.
― pplains, Sunday, 20 April 2014 15:56 (ten years ago) link
irl lol
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 20 April 2014 17:16 (ten years ago) link
I lost another uncle the other week. He was a drinker and a smoker. It still didn't seem fair.
― pick it up for ripple laser (onimo), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 09:33 (ten years ago) link
sorry onimo, that's how a few of my mom's brothers went.
on the bright side, my new steroids came on time in the mail, just in time for beach season.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 15:37 (ten years ago) link
Kick some sand in cancer's face.
― pplains, Tuesday, 22 April 2014 15:44 (ten years ago) link
My friend's tumour is contained within the prostate and hasn't spread lymph-ward, so he's having an operation some time in the next month. This is going at a clip on the NHS. Already making jokes about going off half-cocked, so prognosis must be OK.
― baked beings on toast (suzy), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 18:47 (ten years ago) link
Lost a uncle (not super-close, lived in Germany) to lung cancer a couple of weeks ago. Heavy smoker. I remember him most from how he looked in the 70s: what happens when the man on the Mastermind game box settles down to a life of German entrepreneurship. Would have liked to met him as an adult.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 22 April 2014 21:42 (ten years ago) link
This July I am once again participating in the Pan Ohio Hope Ride for the American Cancer Society. It's a 4-day bicycle ride from Cleveland to Cincinnati (328 miles) to raise money for the ACS Hope Lodges in those cities. If you aren't familiar with the Hope Lodges, they provide free lodging and support for cancer patients seeking treatment far from home. The Cleveland lodge hosts up to 31 patients, most seeking treatment at the world-class Cleveland Clinic or Case Western Reserve University Hospitals. The Cincinnati lodge hosts up to 22 patients. These places are a real blessing - when my dad was being treated for throat cancer in Baltimore, he stayed at the Baltimore Hope Lodge and saved himself a daily 100 mile round trip.
If you feel compelled to give, you can do so at http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR?px=31631118&fr_id=61578&pg=personal . Donations go to the Hope Lodges right away, so anything you give helps cancer patients today.
― bi-polar uncle (its OK-he's dead) (Phil D.), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 14:12 (ten years ago) link
geez guys :/
a friend of mine, who just turned 40, was diagnosed with what appears to be aggressive cervical cancer. she's been documenting her daily doctor's visits, posting her biopsy results, etc. on facebook, and she's handling everything with impressive coolness so far. all the same, motherfuck a goddamn cancer.
― half-worm inchworm tapeworm (donna rouge), Thursday, August 16, 2012 10:31 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this friend now has about a week and a half left, optimistically.
fuck you cancer fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you
― Rothko's Chicken and Waffles (donna rouge), Wednesday, November 13, 2013 9:21 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
nearly a year and a half later from this last update: she's managed to hang on for awhile, well past that initial prognosis, but i was just informed by her boyfriend that she's now finally nearing the end - she's mostly unconscious and very weak
i hate cancer i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it
― donna rouge, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 21:08 (nine years ago) link
Nothing more useful to add, but man, fuck cancer.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 09:29 (nine years ago) link
seconded
― And let’s say a new Hozier comes along, and Spotify outbids you (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 17:55 (nine years ago) link
thirded
fuck fuck fuck it
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 2 April 2015 05:59 (nine years ago) link
So sorry donna rouge. Hugs and strength to you, what a horrible thing.
Fuck you, cancer.
― franny glasshole (franny glass), Thursday, 2 April 2015 12:45 (nine years ago) link
So sorry, Donna. Two of my friends are deep in the shit with this right now, and it makes me so angry.
I've been seriously entertaining the idea of cutting my very/too-long hair back to bob length, and donating the resultant 18 inches of cuttings to one of those charities that makes chemo wigs. Whoever gets it won't be forced to inappropriately resemble Carol Channing, as I did when I showed up to my first day of school having to wear one myself.
― camp event (suzy), Thursday, 2 April 2015 13:03 (nine years ago) link
My favorite coworker. It's everywhere. She's a year younger than me, has three kids, got married last month.
Fuck cancer.
― kate78, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 23:15 (eight years ago) link
Oh Jesus, sorry to hear that, Kate.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 17 June 2015 05:40 (eight years ago) link
My 8 year old second cousin was diagnosed with DIPG in January. Things have gotten really bad really quickly recently.
I am glad I got to meet her this summer, and that she and her family had a good time visiting New York. I am glad she got to see her baby cousins that were born last month.
― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 10 December 2015 00:29 (eight years ago) link
I'm so sorry :(
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 10 December 2015 00:38 (eight years ago) link
Argh that's terrible - best wishes tr
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 10 December 2015 09:20 (eight years ago) link
Dang. So sorry to hear.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 10 December 2015 13:17 (eight years ago) link
And now she's gone.
― tokyo rosemary, Friday, 11 December 2015 02:14 (eight years ago) link
i'm so sorry
― mookieproof, Friday, 11 December 2015 02:15 (eight years ago) link
oh fuck, tokyo rosemary, that's awful.
a close friend of mine has had cancer twice, and he's gotten better, though his chronic health probs have progressively gotten worse over time. but he's just himself, he gets out of the hosp and shrugs it off, he's just my friend. last time he had chemo, he still visited me (i'm chronically ill and don't get around well myself)
recently, we were joking about his liver and how if it turned out the biopsy said he had cancer again, he'd totally ace the disability re-evaluation! silver lining! i was worried, but he's always gotten better. and he's always so zen about it.
this time he won't get better. it's slow, he'll be around for a while, i hope, fuck i hope, but this scares the shit out of me. he's my oldest friend, he was my bf a decade ago, he is an amazing dear friend and i don't know how to even cope. i knew he was going to get sicker, and not be around as long as most--but i figured he'd get an organ transplant, have various other probs, and just keep going, the way he does.
he emailed me about all this, which was a good choice, because i've been sobbing and cursing ever since.
― JuliaA, Friday, 11 December 2015 06:58 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/31/health/harnessing-the-immune-system-to-fight-cancer.html
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Monday, 1 August 2016 17:19 (seven years ago) link
My gorgeous cousin, who is more like my sister than my actual sister, has a diagnosis of oestrogen-positive stage 4 breast cancer which is already setting up shop in her liver and maybe her pelvis. We’ll know more in two weeks. As far as the docs know, it’s treatable but not curable, so I’m hoping her boys (3 on Monday, and 7) get a few years. She is worried the younger one won’t remember her when he’s an adult. She is 43.
Fuck this fucking disease for the pain it has brought to me and my family, and fuck the guilt I am feeling for surviving it in my own childhood, just so I can live a life where all I can do is watch it pick off the people I love, one by one.
― suzy, Friday, 30 March 2018 22:07 (six years ago) link
<3 suzy
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 30 March 2018 23:00 (six years ago) link
That’s lousy, Suzy, much love to you and yours.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 30 March 2018 23:08 (six years ago) link
I’m on a bus from LA to San Diego and the truck next to me has a “FUCK CANCER” sticker in the back window.
― Get Me Bodied (Extended Mix), Saturday, 5 October 2019 02:12 (four years ago) link