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CoffeeCat

(24,411 posts)
19. Am I the only one who is totally afraid of cancer?
Thu Oct 24, 2013, 02:48 PM
Oct 2013

These pictures were very moving, but to me they were also terrifying. Just look what happened to her. It's so unfair. It's a living nightmare, in my opinion.

I don't know if I am strange or in the minority, but I fear cancer. If I get a cold and it hangs on too long, I wonder if something is wrong with my immune system and I'm sick. I worry about pesticides and what junk food does to my body.

It seems like there are so many people who are young, and otherwise healthy and living healthy lives--who get cancer. It seems to random.

It also seems as if there are many things that we are doing that cause this. Our diet, pesticides, plastics, stress, horrible processed foods that cause weight gain (which increases cancer risk).

I am i awe of people who go through this and handle it well. I imagine that I would fall apart at the seams. I hear how courageous people are as they deal with cancer. It's amazing. I wouldn't know how to handle it, in particular because of my two teenage daughters.

I was adopted, so I don't know my biological history--so that leaves me wondering about what genetic predispositions lie in my DNA.

This woman in the pictures is beautiful and lovely--and she obviously was very loved. This sucks and it is unfair and it makes me so angry.

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It's a great series, the last three are not particularly awful. nt. NYC_SKP Oct 2013 #1
Very moving. hrmjustin Oct 2013 #2
Wow KC Oct 2013 #3
So much love...so much. CaliforniaPeggy Oct 2013 #4
Beautiful. Moving. Thank you. ancianita Oct 2013 #5
Touched abhishekbt Oct 2013 #6
+1 nt brer cat Oct 2013 #12
Welcome to DU, abhishekbt! calimary Oct 2013 #16
That's incredibly moving. NealK Oct 2013 #7
I have no words Lunabelle Oct 2013 #8
only tears hourglass1 Oct 2013 #9
Welcome to DU, hourglass1! calimary Oct 2013 #17
Very emotional photos! Callalily Oct 2013 #10
I'm sitting in the bathroom... a la izquierda Oct 2013 #11
Wow, that was so real tavalon Oct 2013 #13
My sister did similar when our mom was dying of brain cancer in the 80's ... Myrina Oct 2013 #14
It took several tries to have the courage to look Mira Oct 2013 #15
Now that's a 'CIGAR'; greiner3 Oct 2013 #18
Sorry, but have you ever smoked a 'cigar' placed under your tongue? Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel Oct 2013 #29
Am I the only one who is totally afraid of cancer? CoffeeCat Oct 2013 #19
I think that we all fear cancer. Curmudgeoness Oct 2013 #21
no. you're not the only one. BlancheSplanchnik Oct 2013 #22
I was thinking that some people here were too sentimental Curmudgeoness Oct 2013 #20
I imagined if this had happened to my wife... awoke_in_2003 Oct 2013 #23
This January 10th will be..... JimboBillyBubbaBob Oct 2013 #24
So very sad. Sorry for your loss. cry baby Oct 2013 #25
... Skittles Oct 2013 #26
I have mixed feelings about this postatomic Oct 2013 #27
Mixed feelings are appropriate and a dissenting view is acceptable. I think you may ... marble falls Oct 2013 #28
Ive seen this before and I always cry. I'm living it right now and it reminds me of my ultimate fate Evoman Oct 2013 #30
I noted in an earlier post the circumstance our family found itself in... JimboBillyBubbaBob Oct 2013 #32
And pricks like dick cheney mikeysnot Oct 2013 #31
Been there, done that, it sucked. Throckmorton Oct 2013 #33
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