Another One With the Cancer

Yes I am the Cancer Curmudgeon

[willblogforspoons]

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?

[nevver]

Alex Krokus

[whatshouldwecallchronicillness]

The problem with the human body...

[sproutlett]

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.

[anotheronewiththecancer]

A Last Minute Hop

A Last Minute Hop

1. Who are you? Tell us your genre, how long you’ve been at it, who or what inspires you or whatever you want us to know. I am the Cancer Curmudgeon, otherwise known as Wendi. My genre is cranky-ass, stream of consciousness, thoughts on cancer culture. I was inspired to begin blogging in 2012 (I think) because I needed a community—the in real life community was too pinky-perky for me. A word…

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[whatshouldwecallchronicillness]

When I win an insurance appeal...

[kristina100000]

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

[nebulousboundsofthisworld]

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

[anxietyproblem]

[ughdontbeboring]

This just made me laugh out loud lmfao

[annahasapotato]

this hits hard

[crotchpit]

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

[bigfatscience]

doctoring while fat

[frostyemma]

@firebirdscratches

[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.

[literal-fandomtrash]

As someone who is fat and who also works in the medical field, here is my recommendation:

Tell the doctor you still want to follow up with further diagnostics. If/when the doctor denies these diagnostics and tests, tell them you want it noted in your chart that they denied the patient’s request for further testing.

That will usually get further medical tests and treatments.

:)

[posttexasstressdisorder]

End the nightmare…

[truth-has-a-liberal-bias]

Health Care is a Human Right.

[spooniestrong]

[whatshouldwecallchronicillness]

When I freak out over something I made up in my head...

[yeuxdeux]

The Color of Cancer

The Color of Cancer

For this the beginning of Breast Cancer Awareness month, we the stage four terminally ill are allotted one whole day, October 13th. I was diagnosed de novo (from the beginning), as my genetics, dense breasts, and missed diagnoses led me to my prison cell on death row on March 25th, 2015 at 4:30 am. I remember that moment like a mother remembers the time she gave birth to her child. And the moment…

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[whatshouldwecallchronicillness]

How my government feels about me...

[whitepeopletwitter]

[crotchpit]

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