cancer

Just because someone has cancer, it doesn't mean you stop laughing at them or making fun of them.

And all I could do while I listened to this dude tell me how punk rock saved his life was think, Wow. Why did my friend waste all that time going to chemotherapy? I guess we should have just played him a bunch of shitty Black Flag records.

The cancer bubble. It's almost like he's not here. Like he's on pause, and my life with him is on pause, and we're just waiting to see if somebody is going to hit play again or just stop the thing entirely.

So what did you do when death came to your house? We continued in the same way as before. What is that, a failure of the imagination? Are you in denial? This is not wholly true; we continue in the same way as before but in parenthesis. My thinking has switched its grammar. The present continuous is its single operational tense. Uncertainty is our present and our future.

Dear Whoever-that-just-found-out-that-they-have-a-terminal-illness, don't let that put you down. Technically, we are all dying.

Cancer may have blindsided you, but it didn't blindside God.~ Strength Renewed

Almost all the world is natural chemicals, so it really makes you re-think everything. A cup of coffee is filled with chemicals. They've identified a thousand chemicals in a cup of coffee. But we only found 22 that have been tested in animal cancer tests out of this thousand. And of those, 17 are carcinogens. There are ten milligrams of known carcinogens in a cup of coffee and thats more carcinogens than you're likely to get from pesticide residues for a year!

Cancer doesn__ give a shit how much you want to live. If it wants to kill you, it will.

For whatever time I have to live, I intend to enjoy myself." - Midge Rylander in Eighteen Months To Live.

Maybe I was supposed to hate Caroline Mathers or something because she__ been with Augustus, but I didn__. I couldn__ see her very clearly amid all the tributes, but there didn__ seem to be much to hate. She seemed to be mostly a professional sick person, like me, which made me worry that when I died they__ have nothing to say about me except that I fought heroically, as if the only thing I__ ever done was Have Cancer.

i__ super, it__ like my favourite meal and a birthday blowjob from Christina Hendricks in here.

We normally know we're getting older, when the only thing we want for our birthday, is not to be reminded; unless you're a cancer survivor, then we love being reminded!

We can look at our tattoos from cancer treatment as awful reminders of a ghastly time in our lives, or we can use them as reminders of what God brought us through.

Since cancer is an anaerobic growth, enhancing aerobic metabolism in a cancer patient is like shining daylight on a vampire.

Without hair, A queen is still a queen_.

Instead of a bucket list Someday Challenge_ wants you to create your Someday Slate_, a list of the things that you have promised yourself to do, things that you planned to do someday! Completing your Someday Slate_ will get you started on finally living your passion now.

I'm not one of those people who think that cancer is some kind of jousting match. People live or die based on good medicine, good luck, and the grace of God. The people that die from it did not fail. The people who live will die another day.

But that's the thing about cancer. They call it the fight, as if the stronger ones win and the weaker ones lose, but that's not what cancer is at all. Cancer isn't one of the players in the game. Cancer is the game. It doesn't matter how much endurance you have. It doesn't matter how much you've practiced. Cancer is the be-all and end-all of the sport, and the only thing you can do is show up to the game with your jersey on. Because you never know... you might be forced to sit the bench for the entire game. You may not even be given the chance to compete.