Cancer doesn't play politics.
Cancer doesn't play politics.
Last week, Elizabeth Edwards announced that the cancer she thought she had beaten had returned and was now incureable. She is the wife of Democratic Presidential candidate John Edwards.
This week, the Republican President George W. Bush's White House announced that the colon cancer press secretary Tony Snow had battled two years ago had returned and spread to his liver.
I know something about cancer. It killed my mother when I was 14. She was 37.
Having seen cancer up close, I know how terrible it can be for the victim and family members. And I know it's a widely shared experience. Nearly everyone has lost a family member to cancer.
But I also know that a lot of medical progress has been made in the past three decades. Many more people beat cancer these days, and I hope Tony Snow and Elizabeth Edwards are two of them.
If you're fighting cancer, or if you're a cancer survivor, I'd be interested in reading about it, and I think other readers of this blog would also be interested in your story. Just write me a few lines, or as many as you want.
And know that the rest of us are rooting for you.
posted by Patrick Rice @ 1:05 PM
3 Comments
3 Comments:
I am the moderator of a small group of survivors of Merkel Cell Cancer, also a survivor of MCC. In the last eighteen months I have located 123 survivors worldwide. It is a rare and often fatal cancer, difficult to diagnose and harder to treat. Per se there is no cure.
We have lost ten members in the same period of time. We are a brave group facing this together.
George
Group Admin & MCC Survivor
http://groups.google.com/group/merkelcell?hl=en
I can only wish the best for Tony Snow. He has shown that he is a "class act" in his job as White House Spokesman.
We will keep him in our prayers.
G
Right now, while you are reading this sad story cancer free take the proper steps to keep yourself cancer free. Become vegetarian, eat organic, exercise everyday, keep a positive outlook. These steps prevent cancer. If you continue to eat a poor diet, don't exercise, stay stressed out then you are setting up the perfect environment in your body for cancer. Again, right now, while you read this story and you are cancer free take the necessary steps to remain cancer free. That way you wont have to keep up with the latest treatments, you will avoid them all together. But if I know you, you will just laugh this advice off and go on with your unhealthy lifestyle until the day when you are diagnossed with cancer or some other disease. It will be too late. This is the state of most Americans and it is sad. Please make the right choices now so you do not have to live with that regret or cause suffering to your family and friends.
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