Comments on: Cancer, Cancer Everywhere: An Invitation

By: janet

janet — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 18:32:26 +0000

Dear Schmutzie,
I can relate to your piece after having a cancer scare two years ago. The most caring thing I can do is recommend my favourite book “the China Study” by Dr. Campbell. Coming from a cancer ridden family, I believed it was my genetic fate also. This book has turned me into a vegan with hopes that I can defy my genetic biology and be disease free.
Take care,
Janet

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By: marylee fairbanks

marylee fairbanks — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:18:16 +0000

Thanks for this story. My brother has leukemia and has recently undergone a bone marrow transplant. In all of the pain somehow we have managed to find hope and inspiration.
I tell the story of his transplant in one of my blogs. you might enjoy it

http://chakrasyoga.squarespace.com/journal/2009/10/15/a-sleepless-night.html

wishing you peace of mind and body

By: Thel

Thel — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 07:50:20 +0000

Twelve years post-lymphoma and 18 months post-melanoma, I find your thoughts here incredibly elegant. I keep coming back to this, over and over, this week: “I am better at being alive than I used to be.” Thank you for writing this.

By: Zoom

Zoom — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:34:02 +0000

This is such a thoughtful and insightful piece. I’ve been thinking lately about my cancer too and how, in theory, it’s in the past. And I’ve been wondering why I find it so hard to talk about it in the past tense, and why I struggle with the word “remission” and why I feel older and sadder now than I did a year ago, before the cancer, or even during the treatment.

By: Mauigirl

Mauigirl — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:44:29 +0000

As a survivor of a (thankfully) early oral cancer, I know exactly what you mean. You never really are over it. But it does give you a totally different perspective on things. I think it’s one reason I decided to retire early so as to spend more time with my 91-year-old mother and 89-year-old aunt. I realized what is really important in life and couldn’t keep up the pretense that my job was the most important thing in it.

By: kootnygirl

kootnygirl — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:51:15 +0000

Strange that I should click on Schmutzie.com today and be directed here. I very recently wrote a post on my blog about skin cancer (which I don’t presume to put in the same category as cervical cancer). But what you said about it always being there, THAT was my biggest fear. I thought the spot itself could be excised, but knowing that Cancer had penetrated the fortress of my body made me feel weaker all over.

Your post is far more eloquent than I could have ever been. Thank you.

By: RevAnne

RevAnne — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:45:13 +0000

btw, linked over at my place. Haven’t posted in so long that I don’t know if anyone will read it, but I hope they do.

By: RevAnne

RevAnne — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:40:03 +0000

Another great reflective piece. You’ve expressed yourself really well here without falling into the socially acceptable platitudes that we tell ourselves and each other. Masterpiece, indeed. Thanks for giving voice to what so many find so hard to express…

By: trinity67

trinity67 — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:50:32 +0000

Geez you’re marvelous with words.