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I’ve been battling cancer last 2 years, but now only have a few days left
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Re: I’ve been battling cancer last 2 years, but now only have a few days left
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Once you have kids (my apologies assuming you don't if you do, but perhaps other readers should be aware), you start to feel that every day - not only worrying how they'll be cared for materially, but also how they'd cope with the loss developmentally.
I couldn't say this any better. Once you have kids, everything changes. The impact of getting ill is no longer how it affects you, if you've done enough with your time, but how it will affect them. It's like a dark cloud that follows, in the back of your mind every day. Ultimately, it helps you realise what really matters, and what doesn't.
Ive just had my first child, shes 7 months old. Tbh the responsibility (coupled with the fact that im a bit of a hypochondriac) can sometimes feel overwhelming. Im blessed that i have her, but damn.
Re: I’ve been battling cancer last 2 years, but now only have a few days left
#93My wife has one metastasis on her spine , it was detected 33 day ago, I fear that moment where she will be suffering enough that she will qualify for medically assisted death. According to the paper accompanying her incredibly expensive drugs (5700$/month) she has between twelve and eighty-eight months left ... I hope that she will cost money to my insurance for a long time! According to her oncologist we cannot know…
Sorry to hear. My mother had cancer in her spine for many years (10+) before she passed. I hate cancer. Instead of building weapons of war, we should be building tools to help completely control it, for all cancers, for all people, so it is no longer this UNKNOWN thing that keeps us up through the night, wondering, worrying when our time will be.
That's hard to do. We "can't" even agree to ban the stuff that brings us most of the cancers (i.e food poisoning, air polution etc). We are lab rats.
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
Fuck cancer. All the best to you and your wife.
I really wish people would stop saying “F cancer” As a society, we have the option of greatly reducing cancer deaths whenever we so choose. Let’s do that rather than raging against something that feels nothing. It has been over 15 years since the Last Lecture and we still have done little for pancreatic cancer, for example. https://youtu.be/ji5_MqicxSo According to Craig Venter, early detection is what we need to eli…
Hopefully TCR therapy will move us forward against these types of cancer:
https://www.statnews.com/2022/06/01/novel-genetic-experiment...
Re: I’ve been battling cancer last 2 years, but now only have a few days left
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is nothing wrong with fat. People were cooking with lard for 1000s of years until the US decided fat is bad and people started substituting fat with sugar because when you remove fat, you remove flavour.
Don’t forget people also died much earlier for thousands of years. There is a great deal wrong with very high fat diets, the issue is there’s also a lot wrong with very high carb diets.
> Don’t forget people also died much earlier for thousands of years.
Funnily enough not from obesity or heart disease.
They died from violence, starvation, infections, plagues, travel, etc.
Fats were not a cause.
Re: I’ve been battling cancer last 2 years, but now only have a few days left
#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
I really wish people would stop saying “F cancer” As a society, we have the option of greatly reducing cancer deaths whenever we so choose. Let’s do that rather than raging against something that feels nothing. It has been over 15 years since the Last Lecture and we still have done little for pancreatic cancer, for example. https://youtu.be/ji5_MqicxSo According to Craig Venter, early detection is what we need to eli…
We also have a lot of data on ways to reduce cancer before it happens. Reduce obesity. Reduce pollution. Etc. Yet we really aren't doing an awful lot about those things. Imagine for example if we had an obesity tax - everyone obese must pay 30% of their earnings into a Medicare fund. Sure it would be unpopular, but obesity would very quickly be solved, and cancer rates would plummet.
I know we want to believe it was somehow a blame or fault of someone who develops cancer. The reality is I've seen unhealthy people never get cancer and healthy people, children even, who get cancer.
No one is to blame for getting cancer.
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Fuck cancer" is more than a scause for a cause. It translates to, "you are not alone." Certainly, I agree that we can be doing more.
As someone who lost a sibling to cancer, thanks for the translation. I wish people would use "You are not alone" or "We also have suffered due to cancer. It is awful. You have our empathy and we offer our condolences." or something else instead of the shorthand "Fuck cancer". But I'll accept "Fuck cancer" too.
I generally agree. I used to be so angry when someone said it. Fuck cancer? Fuck you. What do you know about how I’m feeling?
I learned two things over the years : 1. everyone “knows something” about cancer. 2. I can’t control culture and language.
To be honest though, many years later… I still haven’t found a single phrase anyone can say that doesn’t make me think, “I wish we could just not be having this conversation.” I remind myself that there are no words but people are still trying.
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
We also have a lot of data on ways to reduce cancer before it happens. Reduce obesity. Reduce pollution. Etc. Yet we really aren't doing an awful lot about those things. Imagine for example if we had an obesity tax - everyone obese must pay 30% of their earnings into a Medicare fund. Sure it would be unpopular, but obesity would very quickly be solved, and cancer rates would plummet.
Obesity is caused by lack of access to quality food, being too scarce or too expensive. Sugar and fats are cheap, so most of the pre-made foods are just that. So increase the quality of the food available to the masses and do proper education regarding nutrition and healthy living, and the obesity rate will decrease. Most of the obese people are like that not because they choose, but because they cannot do better.
In some cases yes, but hardly in all cases.
Anecdotally, I know people with the same wealth as me or even wealthier who eat copious amounts of sweets in all forms and are also obese. Some people just don't have control.
But yes, proper education regarding nutrition is something that is sorely needed as most people are unaware of the dangers of eating sugar rich and calorie rich foods in large amounts.
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#99Anyone else feeling anxious over their own mortality after reading this?
I just feel that in general. Lying in bed on most nights I can "feel" my body disintegrating. Forever, irreversibly as I drift into cold nothingness. To end on a positive note, I still find it less terrifying than the alternative, which is living forever.
> To end on a positive note
As a religious person this is actually like the most negative note imaginable for me. I mean, sure, I'll grant you life after death is "terrifying" in a "fear of the unknown" sense, but I would definitely prefer seeing deceased loved ones again and continuing to learn and progress after death vs. ceasing to exist.
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
I really wish people would stop saying “F cancer” As a society, we have the option of greatly reducing cancer deaths whenever we so choose. Let’s do that rather than raging against something that feels nothing. It has been over 15 years since the Last Lecture and we still have done little for pancreatic cancer, for example. https://youtu.be/ji5_MqicxSo According to Craig Venter, early detection is what we need to eli…
We also have a lot of data on ways to reduce cancer before it happens. Reduce obesity. Reduce pollution. Etc. Yet we really aren't doing an awful lot about those things. Imagine for example if we had an obesity tax - everyone obese must pay 30% of their earnings into a Medicare fund. Sure it would be unpopular, but obesity would very quickly be solved, and cancer rates would plummet.
What about a tax where you pay 30% of your earnings for homeless?