Posted on 08/03/2008 4:28:55 PM PDT by mnehring
Is it just me or does cancer seem to hit people who take care of their health more than others? A person very close to me was a hard working, clean living, non-smoking, exercising, abstemious mother of a fifteen year old girl, she was diagnosed with cancer and within eight months was dead, she was 39.
Meanwhile layabout dead beats who smoke like trains, drink themselves insensible every day, eat garbage and never move from the sofa seem to stay around for ever.
When my FIL got prostate cancer 18 months ago, my husband asked his doctor that very question. Dad was hale and hearty, no vices, worked out (at 85!!) and was more fit than most 30 year olds. The doctor told my husband that cancer seems to prefer a healthy body for some reason. We lost his Dad last November - devastating to watch him go from a specimen of health to a frail man in a matter of months.
Thanks. Not many people tell me I’m living right!
Hopefully if it is early stage she will be ok. She is so young to be diagnosed with that. I was very surprised to read that. All of my prayers and healing thoughts to her and anyone who has or has had this disease.
Cancer is such a terrible disease. It actully seems to me that more and more people getting it and dying from it in their 30s and 40s. Especially lung cancer.
Cancer is no respector of persons,age ,fitness etc.My aunt,my uncle ,my mom ,I have had it twice and now my 30 year old second cousin has cancer.Young women need to know that it can strike as early as teens to early twenties. It’s not just “an old woman disease”. So many types of breast cancer.I was amazed to find that at my job ,the ladies thought there was only one kind of breast cancer! We all pray for a cure and SOON! But until then I wish more companies would pull the mammogram van up in their companies parking lots and offer free mammograms to their employees.I pray for a swift recovery for her and that she will be vigliant in the years to come.Breast cancer has an insidious way of returning.God bless her..
I know, I guess I hadn’t thought about it. I just got my 31 year old son married off, I should be well aware of how much time has gone by, but it’s true what my Dad used to say, the older you get the faster time goes by. Wow—holy schmole!
susie
I’m so sorry to hear about your father in law. We lost my husband’s mom and dad within a 47 hour period a couple of years ago. It’s a hard thing.
susie
As to mamograms, I think if they designed one that didn’t make you feel like you were being run over by a truck more women would get them. I admit, I always put it off, because it’s so darned uncomfortable. I get them done, but not exactly every year. They need a better method.
susie
My daughter contracted childhood melanoma at 12 - no risk factors, no family history, it simply happened.
Thanks hon - it’s been a hard year - it seems so wrong that he is not here, but I know we will see each other one day in Heaven and that is a comfort
That’s what we console ourselves with as well. It’s always sad when something happens that we think he would enjoy, or we want to ask him about (he was a Marine Pilot from WW2 and Korea and a rancher/race horse breeder so often topics come up that I’d love to hear his take on). However, I suspect they’re both glad to be in a better place. It’s just those of us left here who miss them.
susie
Perfect description! And she seems like a nice person also.
It does seem that way and it seems that younger and younger people are getting it. It’s such a heartbreak when you see a child with it.
I agree. They are uncomfortable. I used to become very agitated with the little techs ,who were trying to be helpful ,but kept asking you to pull two more sizes out of your armpits to be scanned! (Sorry guys!)But I found the darn aspirations to hurt a lot more. I had a bilateral mastectomy several years ago that was like no pain, I have ever known. After having gone to MD Anderson in Houston and seeing those little children ,who go through so much agony ,I felt ashamed for my whining.
Maybe one day they will come up with a lot less painful detection Some of their methods (having a wire injected into your breast and then having the mammogram done with it in there) seem almost barbaric. BUt it’s a good method of detection. You can bet if enough men had to have that done ,there would be several new ways before long!
Welcome to the club!
My youngest daughter had her 30th birthday saturday, so I know exactly how you feel :o)
Nothing made me feel older than my first son turning 30 (and that was last year!) How can that be when I’m only 29??
susie
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