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GUYS I DON’T KNOW HOW HE DID IT, BUT STEFAN KARL (aka Robbie Rotten) WENT FROM BEING ON THE BRINK OF DEATH TO UP AND MOVING AND BEING HEALTHY AGAIN SOMEHOW… THIS MAN IS TRULY NUMBER ONE
Everyone loves to compare fighting cancer (and other major illnesses) to fighting a battle, but I don’t think that’s quite right.
Cancer is an invasive enemy, to be sure, but it isn’t one I met on a battlefield. Cancer’s troops came to my town and ransacked my home. I wasn’t armed and ready for a fight when the battle started, I was in my bed and afraid.
Then the army of doctors came and told me they were allies and that together we could defeat cancer. I agreed, thinking that yes, now I could fight back and get revenge on the menace that had attacked me.
Instead I learned that my allies’ only plan was to burn my house down and poison my well so the invaders would feel unwelcome and wouldn’t have anything left to take.
It worked. The invasion ended and I was cured. But I can no longer think about the future without wondering what will burn my life to the ground next.
So when people congratulate me on beating cancer, it’s hard to look at the ruins of my old life and think of its destruction as a victory. I may have survived cancer, but I didn’t beat it.
yeahlikethebird reblogged
masterofreality
I could be told “you have cancer in just about every part of your body” and the worst sentence I’ve ever been exposed to would still be
I love jk rolling even more now.
Finally! Some israel-friendly reblog!
People sometimes don’t believe that Jews face obsessive hate. “You’re conflating antisemitism and anti-Zionism”. “People are just criticizing Israeli policies”.
Okay, so here’s a good example of what vile obsessive hate this is. OP would rather die a painful death than hear somebody say they don’t want to boycott Israel.
OP - you’re practically a walking Yiddish curse. When your doctor gives you the diagnosis, be brave. Remember, there are worst things. Like people who don’t hate Israel and Jews the way you do.
I have a canker sore. Stupidest fucking trigger ever. When I got tongue cancer it started out as a canker sore that wouldn't go away, and now I associate all canker sores with that. It doesn't help that it's in the same spot I got a canker sore last week, so it's a little harder to shut down the part of my brain telling me that it's my cancer coming back. I'm only venting here because I'm at my in-law's place and I don't want to freak them out. Logically, I know I'm fine. It still bothers the shit out of me though.
yeahlikethebird reblogged
May 31 2016 - Collin Kennedy, who is a cancer patient, used expanding spray foam to disable a parking meter at the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg where he gets his treatment. He says the fees are a tax on the sick. [video]
These stupid clickbait ads on tumblr need to stop heavily implying that peripheral celebrities like Sam Huntington and Jennifer Coolidge are dead when they're definitely alive. I mean, it's not as bad as the ads that try to make me think I have cancer, but still. Shut up.
yeahlikethebird reblogged
At age 36 Paul Kalanithi, a brilliant neurosurgeon, was just finishing his training when he was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. He decided to write about his illness and about grappling with mortality, and his memoir, When Breath Becomes Air, debuted last week as an immediate bestseller. Dr. Kalanithi did not live to see it published. When Breath Becomes Air is one of many books written about dying that is finding an audience – Carnegie Mellon professor Randy Pausch’s The Last Lecture was also a bestseller, as was Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom. Writer and critic Michelle Dean was struck by the popularity of these books. “I think there are really a couple of reasons. One is the gravity of the subject,” she tells NPR’s Rachel Martin. “There’s a certain seriousness and gravitas that attaches to somebody who is facing the end of their life. I also think, though, that there are a couple of social factors that are working here above and beyond the subject. “