I hate cancer

[1gobluedem]

I hate how it eats people up. I hate that it tricks you into thinking you're cured then comes back worse than ever. I hate that it takes people away in the prime of their lives. I hate that some cancers have no warning signs. I hate that no matter how hard they work at prevention it gets some people anyway.

A good friend of mine died from ovarian cancer last night. My step-uncle died from brain cancer earlier this month. Both thought they had beaten it, then it came back and killed them.

I hate cancer. :cry:

[seemunkee]

1. I'm very sorry

I lost my mother to breast cancer. I lost my kidney to cancer.
My wife has spent 30 years working on clinical trials for cancer. Lots of smart people are doing everything they can to find a cure.
:hug:

[TZ]

2. yeah cancers a bitch

and there are so many different forms of it..Sorry about your friend and step uncle..:hug:

[Sky Masterson]

3. So do I.

I'd give anything to see the end of this evil fucking disease. :hug: :cry:

[Inchworm]

4. Sorry 1Gobluedem

:(

:hug:

[LeftyFingerPop]

5. Cancer sucks. I'm very sorry for your losses.

:hug:

[DFW]

6. I've seen enough of it, too--just buried another family member last Wednesday

It killed my dad (he survived prostate, not pancreatic), hit my mom, but a
stroke beat her cancer to the (final) punch.

My mother-in-law has had it twice (melanoma, intestinal), beat it both times,
and my wife has had it, too (breast, 6 years remission this year, finger-crossing
now permitted).

I'm high risk, my two daughters doubly so.

We just buried my brother-in-law (brain cancer: glioblastoma, always fatal) last week.
He was 52, left behind a neurotic wife who didn't improve as his illness got worse, and
a head-turning daughter who is 20, a great kid who is now devastated.

I'm for scrapping the Iraq adventure now and putting the 10 billion a month into cancer
research until it's a done deal. Now THAT'S what I would call national security!

[4 t 4]

8. Ah God I am so sorry

for you! so sorry take care of yourself it just sucks life is so fucking hard Keep going God Bless You

[DFW]

10. I'm gonna fight like a bitch if it hits me, count on it!

[hippywife]

7. My condolences, 1gobluedem.

I'm so sorry that your friend and uncle weren't able to overcome this scourge.

I, too, have lost too many friends in the prime of their lives and know too many now fighting it. Another very good friend is now in her last days, as well.

It seems to be becoming more prevalent. It's very sad and scary.

Many hugs to you in your time of sorrow. :hug: :hug: :hug:

[deucemagnet]

9. I just lost an uncle to Hodgkin's lymphoma.

He was a wonderful man, and everybody loved him. We all thought he was getting better over the summer, but the chemo was only treating symptoms without killing the cancer. We buried him on Christmas Eve. He was only 61 years old with two attractive, intelligent, and accomplished children and two gorgeous and precocious young grandchildren. He was also survived by my 88 year-old grandmother, who was not in great health to begin with, and is not taking the death of her only son very well.

Yes, cancer sucks indeed.

[Dystopian]

11. Heartfelt condolences...

I'm so sorry for your losses...
I lost my mother to cancer...it's hell.
Wishing you peace of mind...

peace~

[lizziegrace]

12. I do too

I've seen it take too many people I care about. :hug:

[MrScorpio]

13. May she rest in peace, 1gobluedem

:hug:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

14. .

:hug: :cry:

[trof]

15. Yeah, it sucks. My mom died at 50. Breast cancer.

Never knew her daughter-in-law or her grandchildren.
:-(

[mentalsolstice]

16. It took away my best friend

He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, 2 weeks after the diagnosis he was gone. :cry:

That was in 1995, and to this day, I still wake up in the morning missing him.

[applegrove]

17. So sorry.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

18. Cancer and Diabetes...HATE both of them. With the passion of a

thousand burning suns :grr:

Sorry about your friend and family. May they rest in peace. :hug:

[Critters2]

19. I hate it, too. It killed my mom.

I'm sorry for your losses, goblue. :hug:

[1gobluedem]

20. Thank you, everyone

I agree; let's take the $10 billion/month and find a cure for this. Too many good people are gone because of cancer.

:grouphug:

[Hawkeye-X]

21. Yeah, cancer sucks.

I saw my aunt go from a very big woman to a very thin & emaciated and frail woman in less than 1 year. She died in 2002 of an end-stage ovarian cancer, after she had beaten breast cancer via a double mastectomy & chemo. That's when we learned about BRCA1 gene mutation - it was later discovered that my oldest sister had the same mutation, and had her breasts and ovaries removed as a precaution.

My dad is now past 6 months in remission from lymphoma, he had the stem cell transplant to get it done. He was MISERABLE for a long time, and now he's able to work again. His story has been documented on the cancer support group if you wanted to read it.

[ThomCat]

22. I am very sorry.

:hug:

It seems that cancer is running rampant. More than half of the deaths in my family have been from cancer over the past 20 years. So many friends are cancer survivors. I hope they don't relapse.

Is it my imagination that cancer is becoming much more common with each passing decade?

I'm very sorry for the loss of your friend and step-uncle. I hope you don't lose anyone else. :hug:

[littlebit]

23. I am so sorry for your loss.

My girlfriend was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 07. It's really hard to watch what it does to a person.

[Odin2005]

24. Lung Cancer took both of my grandfathers just months before I was born

Cancer killed Grandpa Leo, my maternal grandmother's 2nd husband, in 1994, and then my great-uncle Norman in 2003. My cousin Lisa (39yo) was diagnosed with breast cancer last year, fortunately it's now in remission.

[harmonicon]

25. I'm so sorry

:hug:

A friend of mine died of cancer a few years ago, after having had a lung removed to get rid of it 10 - 20 years earlier. Two other people I know beat it this past year, but, as you say, you never really know. Scary, sad stuff.