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BC Commercials...Ranting!

dyaneb123
dyaneb123 CSN Member Posts: 950
edited March 2014 in Breast Cancer #1
Ok, so the local hospitals are posting BC commercials to promote their various facilites during BC awareness month..and I find so many of them downright offensive! In order to promote their wonderful care...they have women saying " some people say cancer is a "bad thing, but for meeeeeee it has been a blessing"... A "BLESSING"???? Ok maybe the "wonderful" care you recieved, the new appreciation for life, the compassion of friends and family are blessings.....but cancer??? I imagine how people with terminal cases who are fighting for thier lives feel when they hear this garbage and it just makes my blood boil! Ohhh crass comercialism!!!!
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  • chickad52
    chickad52 CSN Member Posts: 497
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    dyaneb
    I agree, I don't think cancer as a blessing!! Hugs, Diane
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  • pitt
    pitt CSN Member Posts: 387
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    Ditto - I must say that I
    Ditto - I must say that I don't feel "blessed" for having cancer. My mom's dying of uterine cancer right now. Don't think she feels blessed either. I appreciate my cancer center; they take good care of us. But I'd rather spend my day at the beach anytime. Pitt
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  • chenheart
    chenheart CSN Member Posts: 5,159 Member
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    If cancer were a gift, we
    If cancer were a gift, we could share the joy of it with others, or even re-gift it if we already had the "blessing" of cancer, couldn't we? I am also offended by those sentiments, even when it is explained ( justified?) that without cancer, we never would have met each other here in CSN! True as that may indeed be, I am also honest enough to say that if getting cancer was the only way any of us could meet, I would have been just as happy never having met any of you! I love you all dearly, and have been encouraged, educated and entertained by you~ but I was fine in that department BFEORE cancer too! I already loved sunsets, and family, and reading, and long walks,you fill in the blanks! :-)

    But diagnosis, surgery, treatment and all of its delightful side affects, and being tapped on the shoulder by my own pending mortality~nope! Not a blessing in my book at all!

    BUT...for the empowerment we can use, I am still highly recommending going to the 3 minute online movie called The Survivor Movie. It's on YouTube...go to The Cancer Crusade, and then The Survivor Movie! Not preachy,but again, empowering!

    Hugs,
    Chen♥
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  • chenheart
    chenheart CSN Member Posts: 5,159 Member
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    pitt said:

    Ditto - I must say that I
    Ditto - I must say that I don't feel "blessed" for having cancer. My mom's dying of uterine cancer right now. Don't think she feels blessed either. I appreciate my cancer center; they take good care of us. But I'd rather spend my day at the beach anytime. Pitt

    True, what we appreciate,
    True, what we appreciate, such as our cancer center is not akin to a blessing at all. And, no I don't imagine your mom thinks of this as a blessing either. I am so saddened that she is actually dying of this damnable beast...my heart is with both of you.

    Hugs,
    Chen♥
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  • cindyc59
    cindyc59 CSN Member Posts: 44
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    pitt said:

    Ditto - I must say that I
    Ditto - I must say that I don't feel "blessed" for having cancer. My mom's dying of uterine cancer right now. Don't think she feels blessed either. I appreciate my cancer center; they take good care of us. But I'd rather spend my day at the beach anytime. Pitt

    commercials
    I thought I was the only one bothered by this! It is annoying that every few minutes I have to see these commercials especially since I am trying to watch TV to relax and forget about it for a few minutes each day! It really bothers my children too! And cancer most certainly is not a blessing maybe an eye opener but definitely think of better blessings!
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  • tasha_111
    tasha_111 CSN Member Posts: 2,072
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    cindyc59 said:

    commercials
    I thought I was the only one bothered by this! It is annoying that every few minutes I have to see these commercials especially since I am trying to watch TV to relax and forget about it for a few minutes each day! It really bothers my children too! And cancer most certainly is not a blessing maybe an eye opener but definitely think of better blessings!

    Blessing?
    Wow, and I never thought of it like that! What's wrong with me?
    I gave up watching telly 2 years ago, there are more commercials than 'Film Breaks'.. I never thought I'd miss the BBC and their licence fee, I sure do now, I'd rather pay the fee than watch the same commercials, adverts and programmes all day. You don't know what you've got till it's gone...EH?

    Jxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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  • New Flower
    New Flower CSN Member Posts: 4,294 Member
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    cindyc59 said:

    commercials
    I thought I was the only one bothered by this! It is annoying that every few minutes I have to see these commercials especially since I am trying to watch TV to relax and forget about it for a few minutes each day! It really bothers my children too! And cancer most certainly is not a blessing maybe an eye opener but definitely think of better blessings!

    positive attitude myph
    That what I was told after I got BC diagnosis. Look at BC as "Blessing" to change your life on a positive way. So I keep trying for the past 14 months. Even treatment almost over I do not feel blessed et all.
    As more time goes by the difficult to see BLESSING
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  • chenheart
    chenheart CSN Member Posts: 5,159 Member
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    New Flower said:

    positive attitude myph
    That what I was told after I got BC diagnosis. Look at BC as "Blessing" to change your life on a positive way. So I keep trying for the past 14 months. Even treatment almost over I do not feel blessed et all.
    As more time goes by the difficult to see BLESSING

    The only thing I am truly
    The only thing I am truly positive about is: I am POSITIVE that I wish that none of us had ever heard of, much less gotten, cancer!

    Hugs,
    Chen♥
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  • Marcia527
    Marcia527 CSN Member Posts: 2,729
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    no ads for me
    We gave up watching commercial tv a couple years ago. We have a tv but use it for DVD's. Too many commercials and not enough quality shows. I even gave up radio for a long time but started listening the other week. I tune the commercials out and don't listen. I may start just playing CD's. I also gave up magazines. Have you noticed how many drug ads are in them? It's my life and I'm not going to take it any more. I read the news online and when I get a pop up ad that the filter didn't catch I close the article. If I click on a video and they play a commercial first I shut it off. I won't tollerate it. Maybe I'm eccentric but that's the way it is.
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  • tasha_111
    tasha_111 CSN Member Posts: 2,072
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    Marcia527 said:

    no ads for me
    We gave up watching commercial tv a couple years ago. We have a tv but use it for DVD's. Too many commercials and not enough quality shows. I even gave up radio for a long time but started listening the other week. I tune the commercials out and don't listen. I may start just playing CD's. I also gave up magazines. Have you noticed how many drug ads are in them? It's my life and I'm not going to take it any more. I read the news online and when I get a pop up ad that the filter didn't catch I close the article. If I click on a video and they play a commercial first I shut it off. I won't tollerate it. Maybe I'm eccentric but that's the way it is.

    Bloody Ad Men!
    They should be first against the wall! Shoot em!
    Jxxxxxxxx
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  • chenheart
    chenheart CSN Member Posts: 5,159 Member
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    tasha_111 said:

    Bloody Ad Men!
    They should be first against the wall! Shoot em!
    Jxxxxxxxx

    How do you really feel, o
    How do you really feel, o turquoise one!!?? LOL I must say I miss European TV too; just a solid block of adverts and then un-interrupted shows all night long!

    Hugs,
    Chen♥
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