I just visited with one of my lung cancer patients. His oncologist says he's terminal.

[Aristus]

Life sucks so hard.

Damndamndamndamndamndamndamn...

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[In_The_Wind]

1. Damn! I know how much you care about your patients.

[Hoyt]

2. Too bad we can't declare a war on cancer, with a budget to match.

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. + a google!

[Aristus]

7. Someday...

maybe it will matter more that we spent billions to cure people as well as to kill people...

[HarveyDarkey]

8. Hopefully more successful than the "war on drugs"

One more war that should never have been waged.

[applegrove]

3. So great that you care so much that you

visited him. People at the end of their lives often have an enormous capacity to feel touched by the kindness of others in their lives. Great of you to visit.

[Denninmi]

4. Enormous strides have been made treating some, perhaps many, cancers.

Lung cancer still has overwhelmingly low one and five year survival rates. Very sad.

[LiberalEsto]

5. That's hard. I'm sorry.

A friend of mine from childhood, who reconnected with me in January, died last week from an inoperable brain stem tumor. He just turned 60 in June. I am shocked at how quickly he went downhill.

I hate cancer. There is too damn much of it these days. I blame the polluting corporations, the food industry that puts chemicals into so much of what we eat, the cosmetics and body products industries for all the chemical crap they sell us, and the manufacturers of pesticides and herbicides like Roundup that idiots spray on their crabgrass.