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lifey
lifey Member Posts: 2
edited October 2015 in Stage III Breast Cancer

Do you have a feeling that every show, movie, or news report has somebody dying of cancer?

I am trying to have a positive outlook but it's hard when you're bombarded with negativity. My husband tends to change the channel, but I am curious-how do you deal with it (if you're at all bother by it).

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  • Traveltext
    Traveltext Member Posts: 2,089
    edited October 2015

    I'm more worried about dying in a car accident than I am about dying from cancer.


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  • Italychick
    Italychick Member Posts: 2,343
    edited October 2015

    I DVR any shows I want to watch, skip all news and commercials. Any news related programs or even talk shows are on my DO NOT WATCH list. Like Dr. Oz, no way, will never watch him.

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  • Brutersmom
    Brutersmom Member Posts: 563
    edited October 2015

    We hit a deer this weekend at 60 mile an hour. No one was injured. Deer is dead. Makes one think. The car is fixable but a slightly different situation and I would not have been worrying about cancer or treatments.

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  • Kicks
    Kicks Member Posts: 4,131
    edited October 2015

    No, I don't feel "bombarded with negativity".

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  • Kicks
    Kicks Member Posts: 4,131
    edited October 2015

    No, I don't feel "bombarded with negativity".

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  • Spookiesmom
    Spookiesmom Member Posts: 9,568
    edited October 2015

    It's like when you start a new diet. All you see are the food commercials. Change the channel.

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  • edwards750
    edwards750 Member Posts: 3,761
    edited October 2015

    Brutersmom that's scary. We see them every now and then where I live. I have narrowly missed hitting them.

    lifey - I recently lost a friend to BC. She was DX 8 years ago. Very aggressive. It came back with a vengeance. She suffered so much.

    No I don't worry but my youngest son does. He has several friends who have lost their mothers so he is naturally scared. I try to reassure him but thing is none of us have any guarantees. He doesn't talk about it like he used to. He does ask about my doctors appts.I am 4 1/2 years out. My ONC is confident but frankly it's not her life.

    I do think you will worry less as time goes on. At least I have.

    Diane

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  • GeorgiaRai
    GeorgiaRai Member Posts: 175
    edited October 2015

    For a while, every book I read had someone die of BC. And I used to watch Parenthood and Kristina's BC story line followed my treatment by just a few months. I usually find it more fake than negative, though. It's always generic "breast cancer" with no details about what kind. They talk about lymph nodes as if that's a giant axe about to fall (queue suspenseful music). And so often, the patient goes from chemo to a celebratory night dancing, or from a happy last-hurrah vacation to dead. I just find it so much of it implausible, and the opposite of everything I've seen and learned about dying of cancer.

    Even news reports rarely mention any of the details about BC that would interest or affect me. I appreciated Rita Wilson announcing she had ILC, and Joan Lunden saying she had TNBC. Those "minor" facts actually give us an idea of what the person is going through and what they're facing. Otherwise, it's all pretty much white noise to me.

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