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Five Reasons I Hate Cancer

I Hate Cancer. I have hated it since it took my mother at the age of 51 in 1990. Over the years I’ve watched it hurt people I love and care about. It took my beloved friend and cousin, Martha. Last year it took my friend Peggy’s daughter and now it’s attacking Peggy.

5 reasons I Hate Cancer (there are many more!)

  1. Even when you play by the rules….it doesn’t. My friend Peggy had a mammogram every year.  She had one in December of 2017 and another in December of 2018. Within one year she had a lump the size of a grape of a very aggressive form of cancer. They used 3-D imaging and compared the two scans. It wasn’t there in 2017 but now it’s there, so today was spent with Peggy watching her have her first chemo treatment.
  2. Cancer treatments and doctor’s appointments become a focal point of your life. You don’t just whiz in and out of doctor’s visits and chemo and radiation. You schedule, you plan, you spend hours trying to fix something that you didn’t want broken in the first place. It sucks.
  3. It’s lonely. Most of the people I saw taking chemo treatments today were there by themselves. Maybe that was by choice. Maybe not. Even if you are not alone while getting your treatment I’m sure it still feels like you are in the fight by yourself. I hope I’m wrong about this one. I hope that everyone has a strong support group and feels encircled by friends and family who love them. But if I’m not wrong and there are folks who are going through this alone…I’m so, so sorry. Find a support group. Message me here at NanaHood…I’ll talk to you. Talk to your church family or ask your doctor to recommend a group you can be a part of. No one should ever have to go through cancer alone.
  4. Cancer is a sissy. It picks on babies and children. It’s bad enough that it attacks adults but it is beyond unfair that kids get cancer. If for no other reason than this I wish I could kick cancer out of this universe. 
  5. It’s been making people sick long enough. We have poured millions of dollars into research and while some things have improved, we still don’t have a cure. It’s time for a knight in shining armor to appear on his or her white stallion carrying a cure for cancer. I’m more than ready. How about you?

 

 

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One of Peggy’s favorite sayings is “Stick a sock in it!” So her friend, Dawn, made her this shirt.

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16 Comments

  5. What a nice comment Steve! Thank you so much. And so sorry about your dad. It is just a nasty disease and I hate it. For you and for everyone who has had it, fought it, and those of us who have lost someone to it.

  8. A nicely worded post Teresa, it;s a cruel disease my dad succumbed to it Dec 2017 It’s all true what you say and couldn’t had put it better myself
    Support is essential for the people that want it I’m pleased to see your giving your friend plenty I wish Peggy all my best wishes and I am sure she will get through this difficult time with a smile 🙂

    Put a sock in it… cancer

  10. Cancer is not a stranger in my family. My mom had Breast Cancer, but she beat it. My dad died of lung cancer at 57, and many others has had Cancer in my family to numerous to mention. It’s a very heartless situation for sure and all we can do is pray! God performs His miracles every day & maybe she is due for one. I shall remember her in my prayers!

  11. I to hate cancer it has taken some of my loved one . Peggy you hang in there will be praying for you <3

  12. I’m so sorry Deanna. That’s so young and so unfair but that’s how life and cancer are. Unfair.

  13. Thanks for commenting Patrick and for being a NanaHood regular. I am so very sorry about your friend. That’s such a tough loss. Teresa

  14. Just had a friend pass from cancer last week. Hopefully, one day we will find a cure for it. Praying that we do. Thanks for hosting and I hope that you have a wonderful week.

  15. My 51 year old sister is on hospice, dying from cancer. 10 years ago it was colin cancer. Was free and 9 yrs later it’s back in her liver & lungs. Not doing good at all. Unless God performs a miracle…??

  16. My 51 year old sister is on hospice, dying from cancer. 10 years ago it was colin cancer. Was free and 9 yrs later it’s back in her liver & lungs. Not doing good at all. Unless God performs a miracle…??

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