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Cancer is a challenge. It’s an expletive-inducing unfairness. It’s the weight dumped on you when your body becomes a playground for abnormal, uncontrollable dividing cells. Call your own cancer experience what you want, you’ll hear not a peep from me. But leave out the fluffy, non-threatening, sugar-coated euphemisms for destructive processes in my tissues when talking to me about mine. Thank you.
Except, it turns out if you are a little bit belligerent and a whole lot pragmatic. Then you do have to change. You have to hand over the core of yourself to cancer because somebody somewhere decided that people like you don’t make it out of this place alive. Literally. This was my cancer. I had to fight it my way – even though that meant fighting to fight it my way, when my energies would’ve been better spent fighting only cancer.
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