#cancer

The best way to deal with 'Change' is to lead it! ↗

— Clifford L Feightner

#fight-for-life #rcc #renal-cell-carcinoma #change

I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#death #life #death

Imagine that the world had created a new 'dream product' to feed and immunize everyone born on earth. Imagine also that it was available everywhere, required no storage or delivery, and helped mothers plan their families and reduce the risk of cancer. Then imagine that the world refused to use it. ↗

— Frank A. Oski

#birth #breastfeeding #breastmilk #cancer #family

It's really going to happen. I really won't ever go back to school. Not ever. I'll never be famous or leave anything worthwhile behind. I'll never go to college or have a job. I won't see my brother grow up. I won't travel, never earn money, never drive, never fall in love or leave home or get my own house. It's really, really true. A thought stabs up, growing from my toes and ripping through me, until it stifles everything else and becomes the only thing I'm thinking. It fills me up like a silent scream. ↗

— Jenny Downham

#death #death

Each appointment brought fear, uncertainty and discouragement. Ann’s constant concern was, What if I have cancer? ↗

— K. Howard Joslin

#faith #fear #trials #faith

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 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

Yes?’ he asked, looking at me over the sheet. ‘I’m a writer temporarily down on my inspirations.’ ‘Oh, a writer, eh?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Are you sure?’ ‘No, I’m not.’ ‘What do you write?’ ‘Short stories mostly. And I’m halfway through a novel.’ ‘A novel, eh?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘What’s the name of it?’ ‘”The Leaky Faucet of My Doom.”‘ ‘Oh, I like that. What’s it about?’ ‘Everything.’ ‘Everything? You mean, for instance, it’s about cancer?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘How about my wife?’ ‘She’s in there too. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#short-stories #writing #inspirational

Heaven is freakin' not ready for me!" - seven-time cancer survivor Dionne Warner in Never Leave Your Wingman ↗

— Deana J. Driver

#cancer #cancer-survivors #hope #inspirational #love-story