A one-way conversation. Though since it’s ‘one-way’, I’m not really sure it’s a conversation.<\/p>\n
“Hey, I heard about your cancer.”<\/p>\n
“You know, maybe it was some of the activities that you chose to do that caused it … you do drink tap water, and you’ve smoked a few cigars in your life.”<\/p>\n
“Hmmm, if you chose to do something that might have caused it … you could say that ‘you’re choosing to have cancer, can’t you?'”<\/p>\n
“Oh well, doesn’t matter. You say you have it, so I’ll believe you.”<\/p>\n
“But really, you don’t want to have chemo now, do you? I mean, you’ll go bald, how will that be explained to others?”<\/p>\n
“You know, I read on the internet that if you drink 10 glasses of an orange juice and aspargus mixture daily that you’ll be cured of any cancer.”<\/p>\n
“What? You haven’t heard about that? … Well, maybe you should evaluate other options first before you jump to a chemo solution … it doesn’t sound to me like you’ve thoroughly researched this as you’ve suggested.”<\/p>\n
“You know, we like you the way you are.”<\/p>\n
“Can’t you just take up a hobby so you’ll think of other things besides your cancer?”<\/p>\n
“I mean, you’ve lived this long with it.”<\/p>\n
“Obviously it’s not as good as knowing someone who doesn’t have cancer.”<\/p>\n
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*Shaking my head in disbelief*<\/p>\n
Disclaimer: The above is not meant to suggest the two conditions are analogous. Each has it’s own unique and tremendous traumas. It’s simply a word replacement game I was playing with myself this weekend. No offense intended. Though personally, I was offended by the “conversation”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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