What if Cancer was just ...just cancer?

I second that!

You got it right. 

From one of the "unenlightened ones."

I loved your story.  Laughed my butt off.

Morning,

I LOVE your post!!!!! but I must say Im also one of the "unenlightened" ones.....

Im just me too and thats who and what I will always be!!!!!

Thank you for making my day a little better...

Jule

Thanks for the laugh! You did mean to make us laugh, right???

It sounds as though this woman needs to be the center of attention. I let people like that have their moment(s) because they seem to need it more than I do/don't.

Sure BC has changed me but I don't preach about it and prefer people to not preach to me about their BC (or whatever). I am enlightened in my own way and prefer to keep it that way unless someone I know really wants to talk to me about it.

I will agree about the husb, though. Mine was an inconvenience, too!

i would have thrown something at Ms. Yogi. Seriously. Its really presumptuous to present yourself as if you know the answer and the rest of us with our blind faith in mainstream medicine don't know beans. Oh blech. I don't do well with such people.



This is also one of the problems with support groups. I know many women love their groups but if there is a bad dynamic the whole thing can be a bummer.

Morning,

You write beautifully. You need to turn that into an essay for MAMM or something.

I, too, am one who has not been touched by the enlightenment torch during this cancer process. Or Journey, as some will say. I have learned no big life lesson, nor have I become a "better person" (I was pretty darned good before cancer!)

I have met wonderful people as a result of this disease, but given my druthers, I'd rather not have cancer.

Oh, and obviously I didn't learn what I needed to, or release my anger, or nurture my inner yogi enough, because I got cancer AGAIN!

Does anyone ask people diagnosed with, say, Parkinson's what they did wrong to get it, and have they fixed it in their lives? Or, ask about what sort of spiritual Journey they took on the road to wellness?

Yes, it's a Cancer Competition, brought to you, in part, by those pushers of the Pink Ribbon. Let's see who can "do Cancer" the best. I'm not auditioning for this reality show!

Anne

" have yet to attend a "support group" for fear of someone being in the group saying things such as this!  You need to write more, and continue to make some of us laugh! Thanks -

I'm with Anne, you write so well!  Please consider offering that peice to a mag.

...totally committed to alkalinity...

Hmmm - just not one of my major life goals, ya'know? I must truly have missed out on the lessons of The Creative Carcinoma Experience, too.

equally unenlightened,

Lisa

Kerry,

There are some thoughts out there (and they are only thoughts, not evidence based, to my humble knowledge) that if our blood is too acidic, we get cancer. So we must do what we can to make our blood alkaline. Like eat certain foods, certain supplements, and maybe run around naked during the solistice.

Anne, feeling a tad bit irreverant right now

Anne,

Thanks for cluing me in. Now we can all run around naked during the solistice, like the energizer bunny and I hope that it is the summer one and not the winter one. To cold here to run around naked at the winter solistice.

Kerry