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Choosing your words
My Cancer Is Not A 'Journey'. Here Are Some Other Words I'm Happy To Use
“Cancer is an unexpected lodger who turns up, messes things up and causes chaos. You finally get rid of them, then realise they’ve kept the key.”
From an article in the Huffington Post, title above. Nice read for those not mad on ‘journey’, ‘battle’ etc.
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- @Caz1, thanks for the belly laugh. You made my day!
- Understand the sentiment but I have never anthropomorphosed cancer that much. Rogue cells were still part of me, let’s face it. I just want cancer to stay away. I like the dodgy lodger image because the idea of still
hanging on to the key resonates with me. Gone, unlamented, but just might decide to do a little encore. But that won’t stop me enjoying the absence! - How about these words @Afraser...
- I called it a dance. I had a dance with cancer. Now we've parted ways (hopefully forever!).
- Yep, @dory65 WTF does that mean? Survivordingy. Survivorpoolnoodle.
Survivorthisisnotalifesavingdevice. I've not yet seen so much as a survivor bloody ferry let alone a ship. Gargh. - "Survivorship". Need I say more? >:)
- My name for this is the INTERLOPER something or someone that becomes involved in a place where they are not wanted and do not belong
love the BCNA network keeps me going. I don’t always post but read a lot there’s always something new and relevant. - An unwelcome pet.
A stray that wanders in and has been eaten all the birds in the garden before you even know it's there. Before you really see it, you are feeding that stray and it thinks your house is it's house.
It finds it's way inside, it wants to sleep on your bed.
Then you have to call a beast wrangler to drag the fucker out of your building. Given the general availability of beast wranglers, and the paperwork involved, the mongrel thing has probably pooed on your couch and chewed up your best dress before the expert arrives. It's evicted with a great howling and shedding of blood. Body parts are lost.
Of course, its a protected species which you can discourage, but can only kill at risk of your own life.
So, the bloody thing is now outside, looking in the back door, licking at the glass. It wants to come back in. Even if you pull the curtains so you can't see its beady little eyes staring at you, you know it's still out here.
My unwelcome pet. Mxx - Interesting. Thank you @Afraser.
- I prefer to say cancer is a disease and I am having treatment in order to eliminate or reduce recurrence. Journey...ugghhh.
