Comments on: [cancer] Getting narrower http://www.jlake.com/2009/07/06/cancer-getting-narrower/ Jay Lake's Official Web Site Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:58:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jay http://www.jlake.com/2009/07/06/cancer-getting-narrower/comment-page-1/#comment-4401 Jay Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:09:29 +0000 http://www.jlake.com/?p=8670#comment-4401 Thank you, Maureen. I know you know. At some point I may pick your brain about how it is to work through chemo. I'll be on FOLFOX plus Avastin, if that means anything to you. (And if I got the names right...) Thank you, Maureen. I know you know.

At some point I may pick your brain about how it is to work through chemo. I’ll be on FOLFOX plus Avastin, if that means anything to you. (And if I got the names right…)

]]> By: Maureen McHugh http://www.jlake.com/2009/07/06/cancer-getting-narrower/comment-page-1/#comment-4400 Maureen McHugh Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:04:28 +0000 http://www.jlake.com/?p=8670#comment-4400 Excellently described, Jay. I really remember that narrowing. I grew so bored with Planet Cancer, and so trapped by its omnipresence--it changed my appearance, organized my life, ruled my nights (I had neuropathy for awhile) and while no one thing was absolutely awful, the six months of it was just so...damn...long. Calendula rocks. And the advice to live in the instant is great. Difficult, but great. Excellently described, Jay. I really remember that narrowing. I grew so bored with Planet Cancer, and so trapped by its omnipresence–it changed my appearance, organized my life, ruled my nights (I had neuropathy for awhile) and while no one thing was absolutely awful, the six months of it was just so…damn…long.

Calendula rocks. And the advice to live in the instant is great. Difficult, but great.

]]> By: C. S. Inman http://www.jlake.com/2009/07/06/cancer-getting-narrower/comment-page-1/#comment-4399 C. S. Inman Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:46:45 +0000 http://www.jlake.com/?p=8670#comment-4399 Statistics are like rules. They are meant to be absolutely smashed to pieces, burned, and then pissed on until they are a smoldering pile of ruined numbers begging their crappy little number gods for mercy and getting NONE. I expect nothing less than a creative death for the statistics. Statistics are like rules. They are meant to be absolutely smashed to pieces, burned, and then pissed on until they are a smoldering pile of ruined numbers begging their crappy little number gods for mercy and getting NONE.

I expect nothing less than a creative death for the statistics.

]]> By: tetar http://www.jlake.com/2009/07/06/cancer-getting-narrower/comment-page-1/#comment-4398 tetar Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:34:06 +0000 http://www.jlake.com/?p=8670#comment-4398 Something to remember, if it helps, is that each of us is in exactly the same boat as far as not knowing what the next moment may bring, and mortality. Memento mori, life's short, all that: As long as you're okay THIS MOMENT, that's what counts. Eternal now. It is all any of us have anyway. You're just being prevented from doing the usual humanoid primate escapism thingie for the time being, that's all. Hang in there. You're plenty strong enough to get through all this. How you feeling RIGHT THIS INSTANT? That's the thing right there and it's controllable. Something to remember, if it helps, is that each of us is in exactly the same boat as far as not knowing what the next moment may bring, and mortality. Memento mori, life’s short, all that: As long as you’re okay THIS MOMENT, that’s what counts. Eternal now. It is all any of us have anyway. You’re just being prevented from doing the usual humanoid primate escapism thingie for the time being, that’s all. Hang in there. You’re plenty strong enough to get through all this. How you feeling RIGHT THIS INSTANT? That’s the thing right there and it’s controllable.

]]> By: Sharon E. Dreyer http://www.jlake.com/2009/07/06/cancer-getting-narrower/comment-page-1/#comment-4397 Sharon E. Dreyer Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:08:42 +0000 http://www.jlake.com/?p=8670#comment-4397 Hang in there, Jay! While I'm not on chemo, several of my friends are going through chemo as I write. The bad news is that it makes you sick; the good news is that the new meds can bring about a reduction or a total remission of the cancer. I wish you luck and hope the treatments have a positive result for you. Hang in there, Jay! While I’m not on chemo, several of my friends are going through chemo as I write. The bad news is that it makes you sick; the good news is that the new meds can bring about a reduction or a total remission of the cancer. I wish you luck and hope the treatments have a positive result for you.

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