#cancer

DeeDee had to have a firm grasp on reality. Yet she knew God was bigger than a pathology report. So she prayed. ↗

— K. Howard Joslin

#faith #pathology #prayer #faith

God dramatically slew one monstrous opponent and then threw us into the arena against a stronger and more vicious foe. ↗

— K. Howard Joslin

#foe #god #opponent #trials #faith

It's all right, Tessa, you can go. We love you. You can go now.' 'Why are you saying that?' 'She might need permission to die, Cal.' 'I don't want her to. She doesn't have my permission. ↗

— Jenny Downham

#cancer #death #family #sad #death

It's like they say about soldiers coming back from war. People all around you are dying. Really dying, Eric. You go in for a week's chemotherapy and you're in a ward with people who are really, actually dying, there and then and doing their best to come to terms with it. When the week's up, you go home and you see your family and your friends and everything's normal and familiar. It's too much. You think - one world can't possibly hold both these lives and you feel like you're going to go crazy when you realise the world is that big and it can fill with the most terrible things whenever it wants to. ↗

— Steven Hall

#chemotherapy #remission #sickness #family

All i have to offer is this: i hold a valid driver's license and I know the way to the hospital. I can hang curtains, flip a mattress, load a dishwasher. I can deliver a pizza, lend a steadying arm, laugh at a morbid joke and compliment a bad wig and I know the metric system. I doubt that's gonna be enough. ↗

— Brian Fies

#family #family

[If you hear a] story about how eating sausage leads to anal cancer, you will be skeptical, because it has never happened to anyone you know, and sausage, after all, is delicious. ↗

— David McRaney

#food #sausage #food

Maybe you should say goodbye, Cal.' 'No.' 'It might be important.' 'It might make her die. ↗

— Jenny Downham

#cancer #death #love #sad #death

Fidelity is a living, breathing entity. On wobbly footing, it can wander, becoming something different entirely. ↗

— Kay Goodstadt

#brain-tumor #death #faith #food #gay

The circumstances of our lives are pieces of a larger scheme in the puzzle of life, and in His Perfect Wisdom, the pieces fit. ↗

— Renae Jones

#cancer #circumstances #death #dying #faith

I remember my first friend who got sick. It was 1981, and the disease was called the gay cancer. I don't think the word 'AIDS' came out until '84. I just remember it being terrifying as more people got sick. We didn't know how you could catch it, you heard all kinds of crazy things. ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#being #called #came #cancer #catch