 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | To hell with this "living with cancer" stuff - I want the damn thing DEAD! I didn't go through all of that misery to "live with" it. I want it gone -I don't to live with it any more than I want to live with either of my first 2 wives. As far as the "cancer survivor" thing goes - I use the term loosely for the ill-informed who want to feel warm and fuzzy that one of their own flesh & blood could actually "beat" cancer (and they probably watch too much reality TV and action movies). I am changed person and I'll never be the same as I used to be and maybe that's ok. I can live with being labeled a changed, humbled person, the other labels I can't relate too. Maybe just the "living" part will do...
Gary Allsebrook
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Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2
Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy)
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"You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes" (James 4:14 NIV)
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