Cancer is the scourge of the earth

[blueroses]

Posted: 4/21/08 at 7:38pm

A colleague. 53 years old, married 22 years with three sons. Sweetest guy in the world. Pancreatic.

I hate cancer.

[Amneris]

Posted: 4/21/08 at 7:40pm

Last night on channel 13, there was an entire evening dedicated to a documentary about this. It's so sad and it's the least curable. Totally UNFAIR.

[justabwaybaby]

Posted: 4/21/08 at 7:56pm

Oh, I'm terribly sorry to hear that. I hate it, too.

I lost my grandfather to cancer last Sunday and my grandmother to cancer when I was six.

So, yeah, it totally sucks.

[blueroses]

Posted: 4/21/08 at 8:05pm

justabwaybaby, I'm very sorry for your recent loss.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 4/21/08 at 8:07pm

Pancreatic is horrible. I lost one of my best friends and colleagues to it. So swift, so brutal, undetectable until too late, like the ovarian that took my mother.

Here's wishing you strength and your friend and his family and love.

[iflitifloat]

Posted: 4/21/08 at 8:41pm

Yep. In the world of cancers, pancreatic and ovarian are the ones you especially don't want to get. My sympathy.

[wexy]

Posted: 4/21/08 at 8:59pm

It is horrible. I deal with it almost every day at work and know too many people that it has killed.
Sorry about your friend Blue.

[Andante]

Posted: 4/21/08 at 9:02pm

I wholeheartedly agree with each one of you. Both of my grandfathers had prostate cancer, but my Mother, who only recently recovered from ovarian cancer, has found out that she has liver cancer. It has robbed me and my entire family of two precious lives, and I pray to God that he doesn't take my Mother from me.

blueroses, all of my warmest thoughts and prayers go out to your male colleague.

[thatgirl712]

Posted: 4/21/08 at 9:14pm

I lost my mom to ovarian cancer as well

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 4/21/08 at 9:27pm

Mrs R beat thyroid cancer & I caught bladder cancer early.

Sorry for your loss.

[tazber]

Posted: 4/21/08 at 9:31pm

roses, I'm not clear if he was just diagnosed or if he was taken by this horrible disease.
Condolences if the latter, but if he was just diagnosed never give up hope. There is always hope my love.

[blueroses]

Posted: 4/21/08 at 10:01pm

taz, sorry if the post was unclear (now that I read it I can see that it was). He was recently diagnosed. My department heard about it this afternoon.

I feel just awful for his wife and boys. I lost my father when he was in his fifties (though not to cancer) and it's too damn young.

I've always been an optimist, taz, but...pancreatic? Of course he's in my prayers, but the odds for survival are really dim.

[tazber]

Posted: 4/21/08 at 10:07pm

I'm sad to hear this. I'll keep him in my prayers and pray that his family has the strength they need to get through it.

[best12bars]

Posted: 4/21/08 at 10:11pm

So sorry, blue.

And you're right. I lost my glamorous grandmother and uncle to cancer.

And my best friend has it now. She's 46 and had to quit her job and move back home with her parents in Kansas. I miss her terribly. She's still in a great deal of pain.

[Calvin]

Posted: 4/22/08 at 12:30am

There is always hope, blueroses. Remember what the lady on the commercial says -- people don't have expiration dates stamped to them. Some people make it a long time even with pancreatic cancer.

My dad had his bladder removed a few months ago because of cancer. Fortunately, that seems to have taken care of it, but it's a long recovery process, particularly because he's in his 80s.

[ILoveMyDictionary]

Posted: 4/22/08 at 3:10pm

I'll keep them in my prayers.No one should have to go through that. I lost my mother to cancer three years ago.

Posted: 4/22/08 at 3:17pm

I lost my Great Uncle to lung cancer. Weeks later, his sister, and my grandma, died of multiple myeloma. Weeks after that, her other brother was diagnosed with prostate cancer.


Not cool.