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Joseph Siravo - Incredible Fight!

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    Joseph Siravo - Incredible Fight!

    Nothing against Joe, but the terms like 'incredible fight' etc get my goat big time. Like other people with cancer etc don't try to live. It's bloody luck that they either get it in time or you respond well to the drugs. Because without surgery or the drugs it will get most of you.

    There were other blokes with exactly the same diagnosis as me T3a Gleason 7 (3+4) T3N0M0 who within 6 months of surgery had got a spread. Did they fight any less. There were a unfortunate couple on the renal ward, whose transplants just didn't work (devastating when you've been clinging on with dialysis for years), did they fight any less. Wife's friend's husband, dead within 8 weeks of pancreatic cancer diagnosis, 58 and just retired, did he not fight?

    Some people are lucky/unlucky and have a protracted illness and gives the impression they fought it so hard so they lived longer, just not true.

    Ok rant over.
    But I discovered nothing else but depraved, excessive superstition. Pliny the younger

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    And being 'brave', that's a crappy description as well.

    It's gives the impression that people not 'fighting' disease hard enough or being 'brave' are less worthy of empathy.
    "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
    - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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      #3
      Sadly this is the language of the newspapers trying to be dramatic. It is the wail.

      We all know that disease is inherently unfair.
      Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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