Monday, December 29, 2008
Cancer Snobbery
I sense a tendency for cancer patients to size up other cancer patients by the extent of their disease. Or maybe its just me, a-hole that I am. I silently mock the tribulations of those stage-nothing, hormone receptives, who need only a quick shot and some radiation before they're "cured." That's barely cancer at all. I am, in turn, completely humbled by the stage four metastatics who are in it for the long haul. They are the mac daddies of my world, the kings and queens of endurance, the Guiness Book record holders.....for them, I have utmost respect.
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ain't that the truth. having been recently thrown into cancer world and for the first time ever having to spend time in medical offices and hospitals, the world is just upside down now. i walk past people who are smoking outside the institute for cancer and i want to SCREAM. i listen to Stage 0 women in our support group and feel like they have basically the equivalent of a headache. i look at Stage 4 cancer patients in the chemo room and want to honor them. it's all topsy-turvy.
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