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kikz
kikz CSN Member Posts: 1,345 Member
in Ovarian Cancer #1
I was watching a program that followed four families dealing with the economy and unemployement. One woman explained that she felt people in an economic crisis do not receive the same kind of support given to someone who, for example, has cancer. She said, It is harder to be unemployed than to have cancer."

I am in no way downplaying the hardships of being unemployed, but harder than having cancer?

I BEG TO DIFFER!!!


Karen
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  • Tethys41
    Tethys41 CSN Member Posts: 1,383 Member
    #2
    I'll bet
    she has never had cancer...
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  • JoanC
    JoanC CSN Member Posts: 231 Member
    #3
    Oh Pleasssssse ....some people are dealing with economic hardships and cancer BECAUSE of cancer!
    Me thinks that women may be feeling sorry for herself....cause if she ever had cancer she would be singing a different tune.
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  • mom2greatkids
    mom2greatkids CSN Member Posts: 528
    #4
    Well, I'm both. I would much
    Well, I'm both. I would much rather be ONLY unemployed. Some people are just so....well, she certainly hasn't had cancer...no one would every say such a stupid thing if they had battled this horrible disease.
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  • abrub
    abrub CSN Member Posts: 2,174 Member
    #5
    And then there were the colleagues of my friend
    who envied her, because she got to work half days in order to recover from her chemo (for advanced breast cancer) and told her how lucky she was.

    Beth is so lucky - she didn't survive cancer, but in her last few months that she was able to work, she got to take of early.

    Some people are idiots.

    I miss Beth. (She never knew about my cancer - I was diagnosed 4 months after she died.)
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  • debrajo
    debrajo CSN Member Posts: 1,095 Member
    #6
    I'd trade MY cancer for her
    I'd trade MY cancer for her unemployment anytime! The big DUMAS!(teen's new word for dumb a$$)!
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  • Pattyn
    Pattyn CSN Member Posts: 47
    #7
    debrajo said:

    I'd trade MY cancer for her
    I'd trade MY cancer for her unemployment anytime! The big DUMAS!(teen's new word for dumb a$$)!

    Cancer trumps
    Cancer trumps just about anything.......when this happened to me my entire extended family rallied together and suddenly all the other issues were put into perspective.
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  • sandyinmi
    sandyinmi CSN Member Posts: 17
    #8
    Double Whammies....
    Well, like lots of other cancer patients, I'm both unemployed AND a cancer patient.

    If I could choose one, I'd rather just be unemployed. It probably won't kill me, and my cancer probably will.

    Seems pretty simple to me.
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