{"id":238,"date":"2007-09-14T02:43:01","date_gmt":"2007-09-14T08:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/?p=753"},"modified":"2007-09-14T02:43:01","modified_gmt":"2007-09-14T08:43:01","slug":"2007-the-year-of-suck-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/2007-the-year-of-suck-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"2007 – the year of suck: Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Got a short email from dad yesterday informing me that grandma prolly has stomach cancer. Wikipedia tells me that five year survival prognosis of late diagnosed gastric cancer is 30%. It’s still not confirmed, and I don’t know what symptoms lead to them discovering it, but it’s not good no matter how you look at it.<\/p>\n

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Granma has always been extremely self-sacrificing to the point of absurdity in taking care of her family, and if some people can be said to live off of cosmic love rays<\/em>, she’s living by sheer concern for the misery of man. Anyway: Fuck, fuckity fuckfuck.<\/p>\n

— update —<\/p>\n

Sure enough, it’s cancer and they’re going to do radiation therapy.<\/p>\n

Also, my maternal grandmother is in the hospital as well, with what probably amounts to a gastric ulcer. She’s been ill for quite some time, and hates being as weak as she is. A couple of years ago when I visited her I remember hearing her cry out in pain during the night – she’d keep her shit together during day, but she’s more or less in constant pain and on lots of meds and I guess the stoic front can only last so long.<\/p>\n

I can’t imagine how it feels to be clearheaded while your body is breaking down piece by piece. I imagine that at some point the feeling of being broken<\/em> must become a personality trait. Or can you still perceive yourself as another person, a “whole” person?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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