"to challenge the perceptions, to poke fun and bring humanity to a disease that is still so misperceived and feared. No matter what happened, I refused to be saddled with the isolating stigma associated with cancer. Just because it had changed my life forever, didn't mean that I had changed."
i don't feel the stigma at all myself (except when I buy insurance)and I think there's already humanity aplenty amongst the people I've spoken too with cancer. but my cancer also didn't make me feel very sexy. maybe it's because I'm not a gorgeous blonde actress who likes to dance all the time. or maybe it's because "cancer" encompasses over 200 totally different diseases with different prognoses, treatments and layers of indignity. and that's not including the permutations added by all the different personalities involved.
I find a lot of these self-help techniques and stories begin along the lines of "you got cancer becuase you didn't appreciate how great life is. it's your fault and now you're gonna pay....unless you change". Im not sure I feel comfortable with that notion. we all deserve our three score and ten. no matter how we use it.
