Sunday, August 07, 2005

Cancer is a long hard road I'm sitting here ruminating about life with a big ol' glass of Bourbon and noticing that I am spending way too much time not talking about my Jinni.  With her post-surgery regime of 12 weekly chemo treatments, she only has one more round of Taxatere to go, and you need to know some things before we are through with this episode in our lives. Chemotherapy can become 'old hat' to everyone except the recipient of the cure.  When it all gets down to it, Jinni is the only person among us who is really having to suffer.  Sure, we can all offer words of encouragement, meals of meatloaf, and acts of unselfish love to get her through this but the fact is; beating cancer is a one person performance.  The rest of us are merely stage hands. I have probably allowed complacency and the 'routineness' of it all cloud the fact that my girlfriend is a brave, strong but suffering woman.  You can see it in her eyes.... she is ready to get all of this behind us.  I am too. Even with all of the wonderful support we have recieved since Jinni was diagnosed with breast cancer back in November of '04, the truth is that it all comes down to one thing - the patient's will to carry on.  Jinni has that... in spades.  But it has not been easy.  Case in point... ************************* Editing Note: This post got a little long so I moved it from the front page.  Continue reading "Cancer is a long hard road". Related update:  Citing the cruelty descibed in the above post, Hardy Floyd says... "...When I was younger, I used to think that the greatest evil out there was racism.  I no longer think that...." 10:28:05 PM     comments to the above post so far, join in.

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