Another One With the Cancer

Why do healthy people expect everyone to forgive their bad mood when they’re sick but expect chronically ill folks to be positive at all times?

this is for the people who went through trauma and didn’t come out of it with thicker skin. but, instead, came back with sensitivity to the world and a deep sadness that won’t go away. some of us went through something and lost a piece of ourselves; our broken hearts never healed quite right afterwards. i see you and i feel you and i am you. it’s going to be okay.

doctors in the 19th century really were like maam i diagnose you with woman

Doctors today are still really like ma'am I diagnose you with woman

This just made me laugh out loud lmfao

this hits hard

Just saw a post about people saying quarantine was ruining their 20’s like....bitch my entire 20’s has been dealing with cancer and the effects from it. Being healthy and not being able to see friends will not get you any sympathy from me

@firebirdscratches

Yup. And what’s even more insidious is that mysterious symptoms like fatigue, dizziness, upset stomach, things like that - ALWAYS get explained away as “it’s because you’re fat.” Whereas if a thin person goes in and says that, they’re more likely to be taken seriously. Fat people literally can’t get a diagnosis without joining weight watchers first to “prove” it’s not just because we’re fat.  So if two women have cancer, and feel fatigued, and one of them is thin and the other is fat…one gets pointed to a diagnosis faster, while the other one gets told to go on a diet. The delay of a few months, hell, a few weeks, can be all the difference. And fat people have their symptoms ignored for yeeeeeaaars. Fatphobia and bias in the medical community claims lives.

Health Care is a Human Right.

I say this as a cancer patient: I never want to hear fight song ever again lol