Julie has to treat a lot of cancer patients as part of her job, because that's one of the things her hospital specializes in. Cancer patient in Austin area needs to be in ICU? They go to Seton Main. It sucks for her sometimes, having to deal with cancer patients when she is has cancer, but I think she's more or less accepted it and learned how to handle it, and probably sometimes is able to bring an extra degree of empathy. But tonight she tells me that she has a woman who was treated for Stage 2 breast cancer and thought she had beaten it, but now it's back and it's spread to her bones and liver. Which is almost always fatal. And there's about a one in five chance that the same thing will happen to Julie.
Fuck cancer. Fuck whatever insensitive fuckbrained asshole assigned that patient to Julie. Sometimes I hate her job almost as much as she does.
Saturday, August 27, 2011
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/lots of hugs for both of you
Cancer has struck here, too, my father was just diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He's meeting with the oncologist this coming week to set up his treatment plan.
No matter what kind it is, cancer just completely sucks...
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I'm so sorry. That totally sucks. I completely concur.
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