Cancer Sticks You said you love me. From the moment you said that, those words became my bible, and I worship it until the moment our ship began to sink. My heart was broken like the family I come from. I never liked opening myself to people and letting people in, because I know people are only out for themselves, and will only hurt me.…
I have chosen Cancer as my favorite constellation because it is the sign I was born under. Latin for "crab", it is the dimmest of all the zodiac constellations and used to be the Sun's most northerly position in the sky. It is located in between Gemini (to its west) and Leo(to its east). It is best known among stargazers as home of Praesepe, an open cluster. Cancer is most well known in Greek mythology as the crab sent by the goddess Hera to help the hydra kill Heracles.…
For my final revision project, I decided to revise my fist essay “The Visible Cancer”. The reason I chose to edit this essay was the special connection that I had to it. When writing this essay, I was very invested in telling the audience how I had felt and describing what had happened with my dad’s cancer as best as I could. In making these revisions I thought it would be a good way to look back on how I viewed the situation when I first wrote this right after it happened compared to how I feel about it now after several months.…
A cancer diagnosis isan increasingly common event and affects nearly everyone, whether directly or indirectly. The prognosis and treatment process is not the same for any two individuals. That being said, breast cancer patients are often throwninto a culture of identifying as a “fighter”or a “warrior”duringtheir treatment and are deemed “survivors”once in remission. While this may provide a sense of community for many people,I think there are negative consequences to thisbreast cancer culture. With reference to Barbara Ehrenreich’s “Welcome to Cancerland,”I will explore the loss of personal identity and forced optimism placed on breast cancer patients due to breast cancer culture.…
Cancerette At night, dogs move around the streets with their huge paws hitting the pavement as they wander around jerking at their pollution stained chains. Their masters walk next to them holding their thick ringed chains. These people were called the guards. The city was dark and distroyed as any other place would be at this time. Its filled with old-fashion glass and steal shaped by decades of destruction and chaos.…
It was a typical day in the McDougal household; my sister was still getting acclimated to college life, my annoying little brother was pushing my buttons as usual, and my only worry was whether I was going to pass my next bio test. My dad was getting ready to leave for a business trip to Singapore but decided to stop in the doctors to check out a bulge in his abdomen. It turned out that the bump was metastasized Stage IV Liver Cancer. We were all completely devastated and couldn’t comprehend how a perfectly normal guy could have so much disorder inside of him. It took a few weeks before I could go a day without crying as I was thought about my future life without one of my biggest supporters.…
Two years ago I learned that one phone call can change your whole life. This is a story about when I got a call about my cousin and how she got liver cancer. Liver cancer is very hard to cure since it has already spread through liver to much so it's hard to find where the original dead cell that started killing the other cells. Sadly she didn't make it and she was only 13 years old and was fighting for 2 years I wish I would have spent more time with her, but now she’s in a better place. I'm happy to know that.…
Polyradiculitis, otherwise known as a variant of Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS), is a very rare disease where the immune system attacks the spinal nerve roots. Fewer than 20,000 a year get this disease, and I was one of them. It was one day in the early April of 2001. I was a healthy three year old toddler that went from running around and climbing on furniture to not being able to walk.…
Prologue How would you feel if you watched your dad die a miserable death and then twelve years later you discover you have the same cancer. I was four years old when he died, he was a fantastic dad. I don’t remember much at all but I definitely know that. He would always play games with me at the park and get me superman ice cream.…
Ring! Ring! This is the phone call that you have been waiting for almost a week. You answer the phone so hesitantly “Hello?” the voice on the other line responds “Hello ma’am, we have gotten the results for Jimmy’s blood test.…
A father is someone who picks you when you are down, takes care of you in your time of need, fights for you at any given moment, and scolds you when you mess up. But that is why you love them so much. The moments of triumph and prosperity outweigh the ones of pain and struggle. During the summer of 2014, my father was diagnosed with Stage 2 Leukemia; however, he decided to keep it a secret from me. When I found out I was caught in a maelstrom of emotions.…
No more cancer is fantastic news! I was thinking about you and your journey. You are such a strong inspirational woman! I had no idea that Leslie had a stroke. I knew something serious happened, but I didn't want to just outright ask and make her feel uncomfortable and then as time went by I forgot about it.…
I literally couldn’t believe it! I just felt numb! As if being told my one parent has cancer isn’t devastating enough, we later found out my father had stage 4 Pancreatic Cancer. I truly wanted to believe this was all a bad dream.…
The year was 2004 the year of the old toddler. I was a rambunctious little monster running around not knowing of the terrors that were happening inside the family. Cancer is a unpredictable thing, cancer can happen at any time and to anybody. When the leaves started to turn,my mom was diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer. My mom did not tell jim and I of the news.…
This is not a very heartwarming type of cancer survivor stories I've read in my entire life, but I would say it's also a good inspiration for those people who recently diagnosed with this type of disease. This story simply informed us though we diagnosed with cancer doesn't mean we cannot surpass the problem and we're going to die quickly. We should keep in mind there's still a chance we can survive in this serious event if we're going to trust and have faith with God. Anyway, this is one of the questions I always have in my mind whenever I read some related cancer survivor stories: How people who survive cancer staying as a cancer survivor? According to one of the cancer treatment center website I've found online, a cancer survivor will have…