stopusingwhilst

Any time a question or statement starts off the way mine is about to ‘please don’t be offended’ or ‘please don’t take this the wrong way’ inevitability the person is (rightfully some times) offended. I also don’t want to take away from your success, my mom has breast cancer right now so I certainly try to understand the experience best I can.

My comment:

I’ve always felt it weird to go along with the ‘fighting’ narrative when someone is sick. Do you feel like your attitude played an outcome in your recovery? I’m of the opinion that illness isn’t something one can will away, western treatment is the only real choice, and when western medicine fails I would prefer not to imply the patient didn’t fight hard enough. Does that make sense? When people say they fought and won is that speaking to the disease or is it more about their attitude toward life? I do wish you all the best!

Edit: My mom has stage 4 Invasive Lobular Carcinoma and it was discovered so late despite on schedule exams. She’s had it for years now and her ‘numbers’ as she says still look good.