Bottom line, it should not be used for a fucking MEME. This is somewhat close to the front of my mine right now, not because anyone I know is dealing with cancer at the moment, but because (for reasons I'll get into on my own journal later) I just started watching 7th Heaven for the first time. I never watched it as a kid, and it's extremely schmaltzy, but the way they dealt with a family member dying of cancer REALLY pissed me off.
I remember the last time my mom was in the hospital, for her fifth (yes, fifth) round of cancer treatment (five separate TYPES of cancer, and five separate surgical procedures), and it was the first time she *really* looked sick. That was when it hit that one of these times, she's not going to make it. She looked like a corpse. It was scary.
Hollywood only tends to do that with AIDS. There's an analytical breakdown in there somewhere, but I don't have the energy to deal with it tonight.
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Bottom line, it should not be used for a fucking MEME. This is somewhat close to the front of my mine right now, not because anyone I know is dealing with cancer at the moment, but because (for reasons I'll get into on my own journal later) I just started watching 7th Heaven for the first time. I never watched it as a kid, and it's extremely schmaltzy, but the way they dealt with a family member dying of cancer REALLY pissed me off.
I remember the last time my mom was in the hospital, for her fifth (yes, fifth) round of cancer treatment (five separate TYPES of cancer, and five separate surgical procedures), and it was the first time she *really* looked sick. That was when it hit that one of these times, she's not going to make it. She looked like a corpse. It was scary.
Hollywood only tends to do that with AIDS. There's an analytical breakdown in there somewhere, but I don't have the energy to deal with it tonight.