Archive for September 9th, 2008


Don’t Speak… Advice From A Cancer Patient

September 9th, 2008 by Waldorf Van Buren

I’ve had a bit of bad luck when it comes to deadly or near deadly diseases. Well, cancer, at any rate.  Most of my family has gone through cancer treatment. I’ve had cancer, and then 2 recurrences of the same disease in different areas of my body, which meant more and more aggressive treatment. I’ve gone through so much radiation and chemotherapy that I should have superpowers by now.*

During the first two recurrences I was pretty cool headed, and just took everything with a smile, a joke, or a small laugh and I didn’t worry too much about the outcome. With the third round and the extensive, life-altering, body-altering treatment at the ripe old age of 34, I began to look at the world with a slightly darker view.

The most interesting thing about cancer was the effect it had on other people, and how they would respond when someone they knew contracted the immune system defect. It still carries such a thought of death, as well as the general stigma associated with those suffering through the treatments and disease, that it’s easy to be dumbfounded when talking to someone with cancerme, I still flip and flop and tie my tongue around my bicuspids any time I deal with someone else with the disease.

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Links For Brains: 9/9/2008

September 9th, 2008 by Oskar Kennedy
  • Fort Worth Weekly looks at the fight on the ground over science education in Texas. (Can’t we just give them back to Mexico and call it even?)
  • The Herald reviews a BBC2 drama about god on trial, while pondering how anyone can truly know the mind of a deity. (Spoiler alert: guilty as charged, but unavailable for sentencing.)
  • SCOTUSblog summarizes the Supreme Court’s December argument schedule. (Expect the first rulings narrowing civil rights protections some time in February.)
  • Ryoga M’s Driving The Peterbilt tackles Exodus 4, and reveals god’s only weakness. (Hint: it totally involves genitals. Awesome.)
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