FOUR deaths here in less than one month
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Horribly sad...
Just makes us feel the need to fight this beast even more and harder yet. We will overcome! We will win! For those that have lost the battle we need to work harder at this. Sometimes I am so saddened by all the publicity that breast cancer receives and barely a nod for those suffering with colorectal cancer. I realize they are all bad, but what can we do to bring more awareness to the need for earlier screenings?
Sandy0 -
Share your thoughtsSandyL said:Horribly sad...
Just makes us feel the need to fight this beast even more and harder yet. We will overcome! We will win! For those that have lost the battle we need to work harder at this. Sometimes I am so saddened by all the publicity that breast cancer receives and barely a nod for those suffering with colorectal cancer. I realize they are all bad, but what can we do to bring more awareness to the need for earlier screenings?
Sandy
This past few months have been very hard here. These loses are very profound and does leave me as well as others saddened, and asking so many questions. I aggree that we all need to fight harder, we need to be groundbreakers if possible and we need to help others who cross to the world of cancer.
When ever I see ads for breast cancer I would often thing what about CRC's. But I think if there can be a cure for other cancers it might flow over to us. I do feel CRC's are ignored because it is not a "sexy" cancer, it is by they colon cancer, but it does have the 2nd to 3rd highest death rates for cancer patients.
We must fight on
jan0 -
A Time to Grieve
Yes, Diane
It has been a very difficult time on the board...we've lost really good people and their familie's lives have been hurt and changed forever. There are no words to adequately express the profound feelings that we have when we are trying to comfort one another and the family that is involved.
It's another sad reminder that we may not all win our individual battles with cancer, but it is the fight within each one of us and the legacy that we leave behind that makes up the person and what their lives were to everyone they knew.
I echo your sentiments, Diane...this has all been very difficult, but as a family we will stick together and pick up the pieces and continue to support those that are gone and those that are with us.
I'm sure that Brant, Michael, and Mike would all want us to keep going on and keep fighting - and we must even though we are grieving, to honor their memory.
Respectfully,
-Craig0 -
Beyond saddening
Awareness is OK, but present medical practices needs change, and:
1. Learn why our immune systems don't always see cancer as an "enemy".
2. Learn how to get our own body to fight cancer using it's own resources.
Chemo and radiation severely damages our immune system, leaving us
only with hopes that the treatments to kill cancer cells works.
I can't tell you how much the daily losses bother me. It's more
than saddening, it's sickening.0 -
sad and madcoloCan said:Too sad to write about
off to a lousy year so far it seems; too much pain......
I to am sad but I am also mad as hell when ever some one learns about my cancer they ask BREAST CANCER I laugh and say no as bad as breast cancer is people don't understand that colon cancer is much worse please don't get me wrong I know how bad bc is but there needs to be more attention paid to cc we are here suffering with it taking the chemo we have lived it and saddly watched people who had alot of living left to do pass away and It makes me very angry that so much attention is paid to other cancers but little to the cure of cc I think we need to start writting letters to congress and senators asking them why is there not more being done to find out what causes this cancer in the 1st place and second why is there not more being done to fight it. I know that alot of people are fighting with this cancer and are not covered with medical insurance and if they pass the medical bill by the president ( use that term lightly ) it will only get worse for us who have insurance but may make it impossible for the ones with out it fighting this monster unable to get ins. at all pre existing condition will play a roll in them being covered and for many it will be to litle to late we need to stand up and fight now...
Louann0 -
yes it is sad
but for me, I think the best way to honor Brant, Michael and Mike is to fully embrace and enjoy the life we have and the people we love. A good time to tell the people in our lives how much we love them and how much they mean to us.
I've also been coming back to this piece by William Penn, and quoting bits and pieces of it, so here's the whole thing (or most of it anyway):
And this is the comfort of the Good,
that the Grave cannot hold them,
and that they live as soon as they die.
For Death is no more
than a turning of us over from time to eternity,
Death, then, being the way and condition of Life,
we cannot love to live,
if we cannot bear to die.
They that love beyond the World, cannot be separated by it.
Death cannot kill what never dies.
Nor can Spirits ever be divided
that love and live in the same Divine Principle,
the Root and Record of their Friendship,
if Absence be not Death, neither is theirs.
Death is but Crossing the World, as Friends do the Seas;
they live in one another still.
For they must needs be present,
that love and live in the omnipresent.
In this Divine Glass, they see Face to Face;
and their Converse is Free, as well as Pure.
William Penn (1693)0 -
Too much to bear
oh Diane, isn't that just the truth.
Multiply these losses by 8 years on this board and it gives you an idea of the losses over the years. For me, Mark's (limey) death was the last one i could bear and then I had to back off here. That, and I got pretty despondent over what many admitted to eating on a regular basis. I mean c'mon people, we're dealing with intestinal cancers. What we eat affects our health or lack there of.
If you stay on here as long as I have, the loss of friends and "family" may absolutely overwhelm you one day to the breaking point as it has me.....
peace, emily0 -
Thanks Diane
These three deaths have hit me particularly hard too. It is such a painful reminder of what we live with every day. The cumulative effect of so many losses can be overwhelming!
Thanks Adrian for sharing the wise words of William Penn. In them we are reminded that we are not alone and that love is indeed stronger than death.
Peace and blessings... Rob; in Vancouver
“Life is short,and we do not have much time to gladden the hearts of those who travel the way with us. So let us be swift to love, and let us make haste to show kindness.”
Henri Amiel0 -
There hasrobinvan said:Thanks Diane
These three deaths have hit me particularly hard too. It is such a painful reminder of what we live with every day. The cumulative effect of so many losses can be overwhelming!
Thanks Adrian for sharing the wise words of William Penn. In them we are reminded that we are not alone and that love is indeed stronger than death.
Peace and blessings... Rob; in Vancouver
“Life is short,and we do not have much time to gladden the hearts of those who travel the way with us. So let us be swift to love, and let us make haste to show kindness.”
Henri Amiel
been way to many, we need to find a cure.
michelle0 -
robinvan said:
Thanks Diane
These three deaths have hit me particularly hard too. It is such a painful reminder of what we live with every day. The cumulative effect of so many losses can be overwhelming!
Thanks Adrian for sharing the wise words of William Penn. In them we are reminded that we are not alone and that love is indeed stronger than death.
Peace and blessings... Rob; in Vancouver
“Life is short,and we do not have much time to gladden the hearts of those who travel the way with us. So let us be swift to love, and let us make haste to show kindness.”
Henri Amiel
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Also overwhelmed
I'm overwhelmed, too. Cancer stinks! All three fought such hard battles. My heart goes out to their families. Apparently God wanted them in heaven because their work on earth was done. I know that isn't much consolation for their wives and children.
Joy0 -
Thinking of the families
I took a different route to work today, around the Eastside of our island. I stopped at a beautiful lookout and remembered those we have lost and prayed for their families. As I looked out over the beautiful ocean I held everyone here in my heart and prayed for peace for all of you. You are all precious.
Aloha,
Kathleen0 -
where is the research?lcarper2 said:sad and mad
I to am sad but I am also mad as hell when ever some one learns about my cancer they ask BREAST CANCER I laugh and say no as bad as breast cancer is people don't understand that colon cancer is much worse please don't get me wrong I know how bad bc is but there needs to be more attention paid to cc we are here suffering with it taking the chemo we have lived it and saddly watched people who had alot of living left to do pass away and It makes me very angry that so much attention is paid to other cancers but little to the cure of cc I think we need to start writting letters to congress and senators asking them why is there not more being done to find out what causes this cancer in the 1st place and second why is there not more being done to fight it. I know that alot of people are fighting with this cancer and are not covered with medical insurance and if they pass the medical bill by the president ( use that term lightly ) it will only get worse for us who have insurance but may make it impossible for the ones with out it fighting this monster unable to get ins. at all pre existing condition will play a roll in them being covered and for many it will be to litle to late we need to stand up and fight now...
Louann
Louann, I get upset too that I don't 1)read more about research regarding our cancer; 2)only see/hear of fundraising for breast cancer research and not cc. Have I had my head in the sand? Where is the research? The last I read was something about asprin as a preventative for reoccurence of cc. I think it is important for us to question our oncs, our healthcare institutions as to what research they are doing regarding cc. I'm new here on the board; didn't know those who have died recently. I AM sad and mad. I think my fight for my own survival now will include questioning about research.
Lynn0 -
May I
May I lift your spirts abit I HOPE by sharing with you this.
In 1998 I was given only 2 bits of information regarding colon cancer.
1. A female my age (31) should not get cancer.
2. Upon completing my 2nd year of NED they came up with if I stayed 5 years cancer free, statistics state the chances of cancer returning was just as much as anyone walking the streets who had not had cancer.
Please take time to reflect the old timers have been around to see so much change in colon cancer treatment, NED, and information. You are all fighting one hell of battle, and riding one helacious roller coaster.
But if you slow down and enjoy and accept some of the great things going on around you, it helps build your soul to fight the miserable monster and thru to pot of gold at the end of the rainbow!! I am not saying its easy, not trying to push anyone away in anyform, just try always seeing 3 sides of the story. I used myself, my husband and my kids. What would they do if I!!! The rest is history.
Love you all
Goofyladie (Cass)0 -
Kathleen,Kathleen808 said:Thinking of the families
I took a different route to work today, around the Eastside of our island. I stopped at a beautiful lookout and remembered those we have lost and prayed for their families. As I looked out over the beautiful ocean I held everyone here in my heart and prayed for peace for all of you. You are all precious.
Aloha,
Kathleen
That was lovely, thank you.
Blessings,
Joanne0
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