Weekly cry. Aka stand up to cancer bake off.

**** me, every week I gets me.

The threads on here get me too.

No dusty bollox, if it’s sad I’m going to cry.

But also **** hell I want a strawberry ice-cream lemon sponge roll thingy in me.

I sort of thought the 1 in every 2 people get cancer thing was a bit… “pessimistic”. Not so  sure now.

@Poopscoop basically you will get it….

If you live for long enough.

It’s actually as simple as that. You probably already have, multiple times, yet your immune system correctly identified it and killed it. It’s when the growth gets out of control and is not identified as alien, that it becomes what we conventionally call cancers.

F*** Cancer!

Watching anything with cancer in can set me off these days.

(wife just finished radiotherapy on a brain metastasis from her breast cancer)

Watching anything with cancer in can set me off these days.

Well whatever you do don’t  watch the wee 11 year old girls story from last week.

Lost my best mate to cancer at 27. I can’t watch the Stand up to cancer stories – though I always put myself through them – without coming out like the Spitting Image puppet of Gazza

We’re a week behind. Watching the one with Danny Dyer at the moment. That little girls story was heartbreaking. We lost my mother in law to cancer last year, and anything that reminds me sets me off.

Cancer can seriously F off.

Yeah last week was rough. And then at the end when Rhod Gilbert is talking about his own experience of coming through it…

I can’t watch that sort of stuff.

I’m acutely aware that I breezed through my treatment for advanced bowel cancer – radiotherapy, chemotherapy and two surgeries. At the time, I never felt anything other than ‘proper poorly’ and I feel so guilty about that when I see others suffering so badly. When my wife’s best friend, whom she’s know since primary school was diagnosed with cancer last year, I just naturally assumed she’d have a rough time of it but would get better like I did.

Tuesday morning we got a call from her husband telling us that we’d lost one of the kindest, most loving humans you’d ever have the pleasure of meeting. It’s just not fair, cancer’s an utter prick of a thing.

C.

If you’ve not already seen it, the Rhod Gilbert programme on C4 showing his treatment for cancer is well worth a watch. It’s a tough one to watch but thankfully a decent outcome for Rhod but it really shows how hard the treatment was and also how wonderful the health service staff are. I shed a tear or two.

Cancer can f*ck off, my mum recently had surgery for bowel cancer, my sister as been fighting ovarian cancer for years since her 30’s, it took my grandad, uncle and my wife’s aunt in the last few years.

My wife is a consultant therapy radiographer specialising in breast cancer, and is often in tears when she is reviewing cases especially young women with families and life ahead of them, knowing how they are struggling for staff, trying to fight waiting lists and having to prioritise who is most urgent now, as opposed to treating every one in good time, they have lost so many good staff since COVID days with burn out.