Over here, I managed to drop a big old turd and hijack my own thread, which was dumb, and not what I meant to do. In an effort to not do that, I’ll just say here that on Tuesday, I found out I have cancer.
It sucks, but there’s an excellent chance that I’ll have a full recovery. I wasn’t actually trying to attention whore (although maybe now I am, I dunno) - but this has been weighing on my mind, and it sort of slipped out - classic case of “you should read twice - post once!” DOH!
I wanted to clear it up here so people don’t think I’m being flip or insensitve about cancer.
Anyhow - sorry if I freaked anyone out in that other thread. I started it for a purpose, and that purpose wasn’t for me to grouse about my medical problems. This one is.
Alice, I’m sorry you have to go through this. And, Pit or no, there was no excuse for my flip remark. Thanks for being so nice about it.
If you need someone to talk to, whenever, please drop me an email.
Well, it actually made me laugh. Particularly since I’m totally veg. Red meat indeed! (It would be like telling a Nun she shouldn’t have dressed so provocativly.)
Alice, despite the fact that you have an excellent prognosis, you wouldn’t be human if you weren’t a bit stressed about it. And you’re right, MPSIMS is for just this sort of thing – let it out, and let your friends here do the electronic equivalent of coddling you, bringing you virtual iced teas and massaging your feet.
I was really reluctant to post this here actually. As sad as it is, it seems like something that some people could hold against a person, or use as a weapon. Despite the vast number of really nice people in the world, there are just enough jerks to make things nasty.
Don’t worry about the jerks ** alice_in_wonderland** , we will deal with them too. One thing about dopers, true dopers that is, we take care of and support our own.
You take care of your health issues , the rest of us are here with good thoughts, prayers, bush burnings whatever we can do. Me, I’ll be praying over here in this corner.
I hope you have a full remission. My stepdad is in his second incidence of cancer and even though it was one of the more easily cured varieties (Hodgkin’s?), it took a lot of him and us. Hopefully, your first remission will also be your last… it’s a horrible disease andd I’m sorry you’ve been struck with it.
Thoughts, prayers, and good vibes headed your way from Philly.
(Ya know, there’s something to be said about an omniscient god – a prayer like “please take care of alice_in_wonderland” is going to be just as efficacious as “please take care of my sister, realname, whose address is 123 Main Street, Yourtown, PA…” )
alice, I’ll be thinking good thoughts for you. I’ll throw in a prayer or two, too. I dunno if you’re a theist, but even if you’re not, you gotta admit it couldn’t hurt. . .
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