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| Cancergiggles is an idiot's guide to accepting, living with, laughing at and dying from cancer. The very, very last bit I can't be absolutely sure of, but then who the hell can? I could have written some beautifully crafted, grammatically correct essays but I hope you will understand, that when I say "I don't have a lot of time" I mean it far more literally than you do. I just wanted scribble a few thoughts to maybe light a spark in people - and then it became a book about Cancer, Life, Death, Illness and Politics. ISBN 0955198801 |
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posted Wednesday, 6 April 2005
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The electrician who is employed to disconnect my synapses has been at work again and the world has gone back to being a bit sludgy. I have what looks an awful lot like a perfect .22 bullet entry wound on my right arm, but I suspect it is the result of warfarin on the spot where Marcus Chemolius did his leach impersonation on me. This sort of blemish would be noteworthy on a human, but as the rest of me looks like a piece of tapestry carried out by a seriously pissed welder, it all but disappears into the background.
I recently received an email from a lady whose daughter is finding it difficult to deal with her recently diagnosed father’s illness. I realize that his “staring into the abyss” attitude is both understandable and sadly not uncommon and whilst I wouldn’t for a moment maintain that my approach is the only one which is correct, I still have a real problem getting my head around negativity. Apart from the fact that it makes life more difficult for everyone concerned, it is a widely accepted truth that it very seriously affects your life expectancy or even chances of recovery. Cancer isn’t always a death sentence but even on the occasions when it is; aren’t you are better off sat in the comedy club with friends and a beer, rather than on death row with a bunch of strange looking psychos? Even with my muddy head on, this doesn’t require much thought.
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