Rant time
Aaaaaaarrrrggghhhhh!
I can't stand it when movies are mislabeled as comedies when they are anything but. It's even worse when said movies are actually about families trying to cope with the imminent death of the mother thanks to cancer. For a movie about cancer, "Pieces of April" dealt with the subject matter far better than other similar films but I HATE MOVIES ABOUT CANCER!!!
As a cancer survivor, I feel that I have every right to be critical of the media's representations of the illness. So many films, tv shows, and books fall back on cancer as a way to milk consumers' sympathy when its completely unnecessary or even done unrealistically. Keep your eyes open. Notice how many films and tv shows mention, or are about, someone dying with cancer but never say what type of cancer the victim has. The variety of types of cancer ranges far and wide and some are simple to cure, or at least have high success rates. Cancer is not always synonymous with death!
I have another 16 months to go before I will know how successful my stem cell transplant was. Every day I worry about whether or not it will come back. It is a huge struggle to always remain possible and function as if there is no chance that my Hodgkin's Disease will return, because it might. Even my doctor told me that all I could really do was cross my fingers and pray. And if I'm lucky and it doesn't, because of my treatment, I am higher risk that others for other types of cancer. For instance, since I had radiation therapy in my chest area, I'm more likely to get breast cancer than another random person. I have to start getting annual mammograms at the early age of 35.
Aaaaaarrrrrgggggghhhh!
It's all very very fucked up.
I think if I had more hair, I might be tempted to start trying to pull it out right now I'm so disgusted.
I can't stand it when movies are mislabeled as comedies when they are anything but. It's even worse when said movies are actually about families trying to cope with the imminent death of the mother thanks to cancer. For a movie about cancer, "Pieces of April" dealt with the subject matter far better than other similar films but I HATE MOVIES ABOUT CANCER!!!
As a cancer survivor, I feel that I have every right to be critical of the media's representations of the illness. So many films, tv shows, and books fall back on cancer as a way to milk consumers' sympathy when its completely unnecessary or even done unrealistically. Keep your eyes open. Notice how many films and tv shows mention, or are about, someone dying with cancer but never say what type of cancer the victim has. The variety of types of cancer ranges far and wide and some are simple to cure, or at least have high success rates. Cancer is not always synonymous with death!
I have another 16 months to go before I will know how successful my stem cell transplant was. Every day I worry about whether or not it will come back. It is a huge struggle to always remain possible and function as if there is no chance that my Hodgkin's Disease will return, because it might. Even my doctor told me that all I could really do was cross my fingers and pray. And if I'm lucky and it doesn't, because of my treatment, I am higher risk that others for other types of cancer. For instance, since I had radiation therapy in my chest area, I'm more likely to get breast cancer than another random person. I have to start getting annual mammograms at the early age of 35.
Aaaaaarrrrrgggggghhhh!
It's all very very fucked up.
I think if I had more hair, I might be tempted to start trying to pull it out right now I'm so disgusted.