fuck cancer

Oh my god, she probably didn't even get a chance to say goodbye. Double-fuck cancer.

Phil I'm so so sorry -- and cosign re all the love you showed him by staying with him, that matters so much

and <3 to Ned also

fuck all the cancers, always

Phil, that's rough and I'm sorry to hear it. Fuck cancer.

My terminally ill friend stopped posting on FB a couple of weeks ago, causing me and another friend to crap ourselves with worry, but friend is back posting so *phew*. For now.

my uncle - who is not literally my uncle but was one of my dad's best friends and was kinder and more caring to me than most of my blood relatives - has mesothelioma and goes into hospice on monday. my dad got me his home number and said he would like to hear from me, and I tried calling him, got no answer so left a message. then found out he is barely lucid, so I don't know if I'll ever get to really speak to him finally, and I haven't in ages, too wrapped up in stupid personal bullshit, got so blindsided by this.

idk how this works. fuck cancer.

The whole situation gets worse because his brothers apparently wanted nothing to do with Alan, and his partner Debra has turned out to be a duplicitous asshole, so I am going to get left holding the bag of settling his affairs. I'm pretty sure he died intestate, so this is going to be terrific.

oh god :(

Just want to say, Phil, you're a fucking hero for being there for your cousin. People often think everyone will pull together when shit like this gets serious but the reality is many people just can't or won't take the time to properly help. Others avoid cancer like the plague, literally.

I'm sure your efforts were much appreciated by Alan and that you made a huge difference to his final months.

Sorry for your loss.

nicely put, and co-sign x 10

just found out a former castmate of mine in a musical I did 5 years ago died of cancer this week. I will admit I didn't know him well and hadn't seen him pretty much sicne then, but this is just so sad - he was a sweet guy, very young, didn't deserve this.

Rest in peace (and fuck cancer)

Just found out a family member has stage 1. Fuck cancer.

I have lost a good number of friends through it. One of whom was a 30-something musician who just one day fell down and found out he had cancer and would die in a year. Some of my friends w cancer are still around. One day I went w my mom to visit a friend of hers whose daughter had recently lost her eyesight after losing her hair and mobility. She was a ballerina before this happened to her. Life is not fair. On a positive note she has actually danced again since then so I do think as the years pass things get more and more hopeful. But it sucks even if you live a few more decades they tend to be constant ups-and-downs and often very painful. My heart goes out to anyone w cancer or who knows someone who does. Which is sadly almost everyone.

I am so glad I got to see my friend Caroline on her last trip to London. She died this morning, leaving a husband, two young teenage boys and hundreds of loved ones. Fuck you, cancer, for taking away another friend.

i'm sorry suzy. condolences :(

Sorry to hear, suzy. Hope you're ok.

likewise. all the best to you suzy

sorry to hear about this suzy.

Said goodbye to my mother in law last weekend. Fuck you, cancer.

Doing better, especially having found out from mutual friend that C always told him she wanted Motorhead's 'Killed By Death' played at her funeral.

Because she married a Ukranian Russian, she's having a Russian Orthodox funeral/burial in Kiev, which sounds fairly hardcore but also like the most Goth thing ever.

Cancer doesn't get fucked enough so I want to share good news.

I anonymously posted this ten years ago on another C thread

A friend emailed me this week to tell me she has just discovered she has an advanced cancer. She has two young children and is six weeks pregnant with a 3rd which she'll have to abort before she can start chemo. I want to help her but we're thousands of miles apart and we'll be lucky if we ever see each other again. I can't stop crying.
FUCK CANCER.

― FUCK CANCER, Monday, October 3, 2005 9:47 AM (9 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It is ten years today since my friend's diagnosis and she is healthy and happy and full of life!

Cancer you got fucked.

That is awesome! Hell yes.

Awesome news. Congrats to your friend.

congrats to your friend (mine beat it too)

sorry for your loss suzy, hadnt seen your post until now.

v happy for you and your friend, onimo.

sympathies to suzy and dandydon.

3 years this week since i was diagnosed with MM. I am "stable" but enduring exhausting chemo (plus f/t work!) 3 out of 4 goddamn weeks. But things could be worse. (i'll let you know if being laid off, which i expect to happen in the next 2 years unless they fear the Cancer Guy suing them, is one of those things.)

3 out of 4 weeks damn that's rough morbs

Fuck... cancer. That is a heavy load, M.

fuck fuck fuck.

:(
What happened

OK, I'll start it. Fuck cancer.

one of my best friends, former boss, amazing dude just got a diagnosis (yesterday) of 4 months to live, possibly a year or more w/chemo

:(

― sleeve, Tuesday, March 4, 2014 2:39 PM (1 year ago)

well he made it almost two years, pretty good.

he came home from the hospital and is in hospice care with his family. This weekend I'll be helping other close friends organize some open house hours so he can say goodbye to everybody (and so the family can focus on him and not the parking of cars and the food etc).

fuck cancer

Jon, my friend took a turn for the way worse and it looks like it won't be long now.

That's what I sort of guessed. I'm sorry, man.

sorry sleeve & ez <3

My friend Nevada died on Thursday.

http://artandseek.org/2016/02/19/musician-and-printmaker-nevada-hill-has-died/

Ugh. My condolences, EZ.

sorry EZ <3

I'm so sorry EZ. 34 - not that there's any age where cancer should be allowed to take anybody, but that's way too young :(

best wishes to you

Be easy, Nevada.

Sorry for you, EZ.

I'm so sorry EZ. That's just totally fucked.

Condolences EZ

Aw that's terrible, sorry to hear it.

Sorry EZ sounds like he was a great person

My stepfather has 2 months. Pancreatic.

Also tentative news, and no comfort to EZ or ums's stepfather, but some cancer may soon be getting fucked:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/feb/15/cancer-extraordinary-results-t-cell-therapy-research-clinical-trials

wow that is v exciting

More happy news, or at least an anecdote. Our friends' 6-year old daughter had been fighting leukemia, and while she just finally ended two years of chemo and seems to be OK, she at last was able to take advantage of her Make A Wish trip to Disney (which had to be cancelled twice before because she was too sick to go). It sounds like an amazing experience, and while my friends felt a little guilty because their daughter was currently OK (compared to many in their Make A Wish villa), I think they know that man, did they all earn the trip. I can't even imagine the stress alone.

Funnily enough, they told me that their daughter's occasional follow-up blood tests totally freak her out now, even though for months she was getting regular blood drawn from a permanent tube. I'd always heard that the older the kid, the tougher it is for them to deal.

Sorry, Matt. That sucks.

Nice to see cool science news and read happy stories. More of these please!

One of my best friends' non-Hodgkin lymphoma appears to have relapsed. She is 38, married to another one of my best friends with a little boy who's just started primary school. When she got it the first time they told her a relapse would likely be incurable. I'm going between numb and on the verge of tears in the office at the moment.

oh fuck cp, that's rotten

oh no.
that's truly awful.
is there any chance that this return is not totally beyond help ?

fucking cancer.

It's early days yet. I guess there'll be more tests. She doesn't have any physical symptoms this just came up on routine tests and an ultrasound. But it doesn't look good. It's only been 4 years since she stopped chemo.

i realise this is not going to help matters, but hopefully the fact that its 4 years post chemo could mean the fucker is not massively aggressive, and so, could be held in check.
bh had no respite after her chemo.
the evil lump was already back within a matter of days after her chemo.
also, sounds like they have picked up on it sharpish, which despite the shock is probably a good thing.

One of my friends from college has been battling a brain tumor for the past year. He had surgery last month to remove it and address swelling that was affecting his cognitive abilities; he never fully recovered from the surgery and is currently in a coma with a terrible prognosis. His family is currently saying their goodbyes and his friends are sharing memories of him and his performances; he was a fantastic baritone who was currently singing with the choir at Washington Cathedral.

This song from an album our college choir recorded in 1992 has been making the rounds today; I've already posted it on I Make Music but I want to share it here as well. It features my friend as baritone soloist singing an incredibly poignant text given the current situation.

https://clyp.it/0tyy3hax