I have a really hard time with the way people talk about cancer and putting in the form of some quantifiable fight. Because it requires fighting in its very nature. It requires insane levels of strength from the get go. But it also requires other things of people...
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Perhaps then I should clarify. You asked for mindfulness regarding those who have passed; I'm asking for mindfulness for survivors who use that term and don't need to question whether they are insulting the memories of friends they made during chemo who didn't also survive.
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Apologies if this comes off in a way I don't intend. My husband and mother both survived their cancer diagnoses, and I have seen both struggle with some forms of survivor guilt, so to read "insult," even though you retracted in the next tweet, really struck a protective nerve.
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