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CRAZY SEXY CANCER
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Jul 15, 5:39am
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•http://www.crazysexycancer.com/
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I just watched this program, and it was very difficult to watch - and also very worth seeing (as pointed out by trinity35).
Cancer has taken a lot from me. Brain cancer ravaged my mother when I was 12 and stole her from me when I was 13. Lung cancer that metastasized to the brain snatched my friend Robin. Ovarian cancer beat Lisa's mother into submission... breast cancer bludgeoned John's wife, Chris' best friend (the love of his life)... came back to haunt Alex in her esophagus, and lung. Eventually it will tighten its already too-firm grip on Ellen, and she will go, too.
As one of the women in this program said, though - it also gives us something - a part of us we didn't know was there, lying just beneath the surface. I've never fought this devil first hand but I've been close enough to touch its ghastly, cold face.
Loving someone with cancer is hard. It's the hardest thing I've ever done in my life. But I still love someone with cancer. Right now I love someone with cancer. And it makes me swallow hard because of the lump it leaves in my throat; and I blink back tears when tears are the furthest from appropriate at any given moment... and it isn't because I feel some impending sense of doom for this particular instance - just that I've seen what it can do, and the past often lingers in the present, even though we try not to let it.
I am so grateful for you.
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