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kar123
kar123 Member Posts: 273
edited January 2016 in Stage III Breast Cancer

The news lately has been shaking my confidence and bringing out the dreaded darkness of a cancer diagnosis. I know it's not breast cancer, but Alan Rickman, David Bowie, Celion Dion's husband and brother, Joey Feeks, etc. Everyday it's in the news that someone has been lost or in the process of being lost to cancer. It's making me feel like we are making absolutely no progress and it's just a matter of time before it hits me again. I hate feeling like this! Every ache and pain makes it feel like it's imminent. Being on anastrozole, having recon, and radiation, I am in some sort of pain everyday. It's exhausting, infuriating, and frustrating. I wish it would just stop already!

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  • LM070917
    LM070917 Member Posts: 323
    edited January 2016

    I know exactly what you mean, the past week has been thoroughly depressing, what about all the survivors out there? I think there is a tendency with the media to jump on the bang wagon and highlight negativity, but there's also a lot of famous people who have survived cancer and are never really mentioned. Chin up

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    TectonicShift Member Posts: 752
    edited July 2020

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  • wrmbrownie
    wrmbrownie Member Posts: 114
    edited January 2016

    I know exactly what you mean. I have had a couple people in my circle of friends who have recently died of cancer as well. It's everywhere... Ugh!

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  • rainnyc
    rainnyc Member Posts: 1,289
    edited January 2016

    David Bowie was liver cancer. Alan Rickman pancreatic. Both dreadful, swift-killing variants of this disease.

    And don't forget Beau Biden, from a brain tumor.

    I think we can all point to many, many people who have been treated successfully for various kinds of cancer. But that doesn't mean that it's not a killer that takes far too many, too soon, and leave survivors with terribly compromised quality of life.

    If I take anything positive from these celebrity stories, it's that they may help focus public attention and even research money on finding a cure, and not just phony, corporate feel-good awareness nonsense. I have really come to admire Joe Biden, first for grace in the wake of a terrible loss and second for trying to do something about it. Let's hope and pray he gets somewhere.

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  • sbelizabeth
    sbelizabeth Member Posts: 2,889
    edited January 2016

    Me too, kar. Every ache and pain makes the mouse in the corner balloon into an elephant again, and my heart breaks for both friends and celebrities whose lives are churned up, or ended, by this disease. But I will strive to not let it steal my peace.

    Gentle hugs...

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