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Sunday, November 7, 2010
Kick it to the Curb!
8:37 PM | 
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.... Phyllis Diller
Phew! October is over. Breast Cancer awareness month. I really don’t want to made aware. I am more aware than I ever wanted to be. But just when I thought I could forget about the *C* word ... November comes along. More cancer awareness.
Don’t get me wrong. I appreciate the attention we’re giving to this dreadful DIS-ease. But I want to know more than just about the treatments. I want a cure. I want to know WHAT causes it. I want it stopped. I don’t just want to be aware.
This is not something where you can just get it, and then be free. It changes your life. It changes everything. Forever.
I don’t have the luxury of looking forward to retirement in peace. I hope I get there. But my concerns are whether I’ll make it to this spring. Or to see my son graduate high school. Or to hold my first grandbaby. I sometimes feel like the little engine that could ... I think I can ... I think I can ... I think I can!
And it doesn’t just affect me. It affects everyone. My son doesn’t remember a time when I was just ME. I used to be so active and strong and full of pep. Since he’s been six, he’s seen me bald and crying and hurting. My girls? Well, they’ve had to watch this too and wonder ... will they get the same sentence?
I saw a news report the other day where someone was marketing a t-shirt that said F*ck Cancer. Well that’s what I say. Give it the finger. It doesn’t belong to me. I don’t want the ‘gift’!! I’m returning it.
Thanks for all the awareness, but now we need to do more than just stand up and fight. We need to kick cancer to the curb!
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I think you should be writing a weekly column for a MAJOR newspaper.
Thing is, there are so many diseases that affect people, and there simply are not enough months in the year for all of them. I suffer from depression, a friend has MS... Maybe they are not the killers that cancer is, but they cause such chaos in all the lives they touch.