eta: this kind of sounds like blaming the cancer patient, even though I know the statistic support it.
I am pretty sure that blaming the cancer patient is a bad thing even when it's something like lung cancer that we know it tied to smoking. It's more like, "FUCK CANCER!" because we are all so hurt by this pretty random mutation. I don't think I should be judged by a cellular process for the fact that I think I am better off not raising a child or several. Really. And I don't think I am here. Cancer really sucks. It sucks if it is something known to happen sometimes due to your choices and when it isn't. It just sucks.
DUDE. I CLOSED THE WINDOW BEFORE HITTING POST.
Anyway--I read meara's post as "runs three miles a day, eats salad, has heart attack anyway"--whatchya gonna do?
Thanks for the feedback, Burrell. I'll have to precisely plan stuff. Maybe tomorrow I can get the insurance coverage info.
I cannot imagine all the shoes that are Fluevogs.
And associated brilliance you have now missed. Can you feel your life disenrichening? It's totally a thing.
I am wearing Captain American boxers (men's natch, because women don't seem MATTER TO SOME PEOPLE
Anyway--I read meara's post as "runs three miles a day, eats salad, has heart attack anyway"--whatchya gonna do?
but you've never had a heart attack
and I did say it was a kneejerk response
this kind of sounds like blaming the cancer patient, even though I know the statistic support it.
Sorry, Lee--totally NOT meant that way. More in a "crap, my mom had breast cancer at 40 and having kids early is supposed to help and I'm TOO LATE FOR THAT and OMG MY FRIEND HAD THEM AND IT DIDN"T HELP BRAIN GOING CRAZY"
Anyway--I read meara's post as "runs three miles a day, eats salad, has heart attack anyway"--whatchya gonna do?
This.
Definitely not trying to be like "Gawd, those cancer patients, why didn't they just have KIDS, like they were SUPPOSED to? Clearly would've prevented it all" (...especially since I'm among the no-kids group!)
And I get that, I promise I do. You just hit one of my HAI, I HAVE ISSUES, LET ME SHOW YOU THEM buttons.
It's hereditary [link]
From Lee's link:
If my mother just sent me an email saying that she just found out that one of a work friend's two daughters has breast cancer and that she isn't sure which, but she guess it's the one "who, like you, does not have the protection offered by child bearing", am I allowed to tell her to STFU?
Oh, wow. Suddenly the Republicans' policies on health insurance and reproductive rights make sense!
Is that where they get their whole "abortion causes cancer" thing? Oy.
And my mother is a Democratic scientist.
Who totally fails at genetics, and most science.
My family experience says that childbearing isn't any kind of guarantee against breast cancer. My thoughts go to your friend meara, I hope she's caught it early and her recovery is good.
Novocaine wore off half way through dancing tonight. And now it is painfully obvious that my temporary crown fits like crap. I have already left a message at the dentist's that I need to get in there Friday either for the permanent crown or to fix the temp. I really don't care which.
Driving home from dancing, I had a great idea to solve a work problem posed to me by my new PM. I had told him it would take me a while to come up with a workable solution and once I came home tonight, it took me 30 minutes to try out my idea. And it works!!! Yes, I was working after midnight. Silly me. But that is a problem solved!!!
I should be tired and sleepy and not here babbling to myself. And yet I'm just not there yet. Sad.
