Chronic Cancer. Permanent. I can’t cut my cancer off with a knife or a laser. I can’t target it with radiation. I can’t kill it on a cellular level with chemotherapy. I can’t be proactive and remove body parts susceptible to it.
I will live with it for the rest of my life. I’ll never know what it’s like to be cancer free. I can only hope it doesn’t become aggressive any time soon. Eventually it likely will. But not soon.
I’ve had cervical cancer removed by laser. I wish I could do the same with this. For them to call me and say it’s gone and it looks like it’s not coming back.
They’re finally cutting me loose from the colposcopy clinic, they said with a smile in their voice.
I want to be cut loose from this.
The reality is, I won’t be. And neither will thousands of other people living with chronic and incurable cancers.
These cancers need research and funding so badly. Lot’s of these conditions are little known and/or rare, but together we are a lot.
A lot of people looking for hope.
Hope for the things people don’t do walks or runs or raffles for.. Or make clothes, shoes and accessories for. At least no where near to the scale of others.
Hope for things that can’t be won.
We won’t fight and win our battle with cancer.
We have to meet it, shake it’s hand, and settle into a lifetime partnership with it.
We deserve the same attention and effort that all the more common, treatable cancers do. If not, more.
Please, please help spread awareness and help support mastocytosis and other chronic and/or incurable cancers!!