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flamingyouth

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Mon Jul-30-07 06:26 PM
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18. I post on Leroy's blog pretty regularly. It's a great community.

I try to have some compassion for other people with chronic illnesses. I'm sure she was having a bad day when she said that, but sheesh, Ann, try to have a little compassion for people like us who are really suffering with cancer. It's no walk in the park, trust me.

My type of cancer is generally not life-threatening but it has a 50-80% recurrence rate. So I have checkups every 90 days for the next two years, that is if I don't have another recurrence. I have already had two in since last November. I will never be cured unless medical science actually finds a cancer cure, so this is my lot in life.

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Mitt Romney's wife angers cancer survivers	Poiuyt	Jul-30-07 06:01 PM	#0
hey, Lighten up. there's Lots of jokes out there	sniffa	Jul-30-07 06:02 PM	#1
What a stupid woman	Beaverhausen	Jul-30-07 06:03 PM	#2
and she converted after meeting him	sniffa	Jul-30-07 06:07 PM	#6
And she switched to the whole "gold plates and magic glasses".	missb	Jul-30-07 06:16 PM	#13
(why are all you Ls in caps?) n/t	orleans	Jul-31-07 02:33 AM	#48
LOL! you said it.	antifaschits	Jul-30-07 06:08 PM	#8
And mainstream Christianity isn't a fraud?	AnotherGreenWorld	Jul-30-07 06:46 PM	#27
on that, we agree.	antifaschits	Jul-30-07 07:34 PM	#36
Americans with no health insurance will do just that, Ann, darling.	Bluebear	Jul-30-07 06:03 PM	#3
If she wanted a quick death, she had options	Solly Mack	Jul-30-07 06:04 PM	#4
I'd take her MS over Elizabeth Edwards' cancer any day, frankly.	wienerdoggie	Jul-30-07 06:05 PM	#5
MS is, for the most part, something you LIVE with. Cancer, OTOH,	kestrel91316	Jul-30-07 06:37 PM	#21
Hmm.	AnotherGreenWorld	Jul-30-07 06:42 PM	#23
Don't put words in my mouth, now or EVER. I never said those things.	kestrel91316	Jul-30-07 06:49 PM	#29
Um, it's not like that for all people...	bicentennial_baby	Jul-30-07 06:55 PM	#32
That sucks bicentennial_baby. Sorry to hear that. :(	AnotherGreenWorld	Jul-30-07 07:11 PM	#35
See my post below...it gets worse.	bicentennial_baby	Jul-30-07 07:36 PM	#37
I just found out a few days ago that my mom may have MS	nonconformist	Jul-31-07 02:30 PM	#52
Hugs to you!	bicentennial_baby	Jul-31-07 02:32 PM	#54
Thanks... I'm optimistic. She first had what we thought was Bell's Palsy, which led to an MRI	nonconformist	Jul-31-07 02:41 PM	#57
MS is not like diabetes.	AnotherGreenWorld	Jul-30-07 07:07 PM	#33
LOL. MS is way worse than diabetes	MiserableFailure	Jul-31-07 02:17 PM	#51
This post is for both of you. Just like in the case of Ms. Romney, it's not a very	peacebaby3	Jul-31-07 07:45 PM	#61
I think that was the point	Warpy	Jul-30-07 08:42 PM	#43
She wasn't suicidal but she wanted to die?	Snicker-snack	Jul-30-07 06:08 PM	#7
She's not funny, but I'm laughing at her	Bucky	Jul-30-07 06:45 PM	#26
I'm not suicidal	pookieblue	Jul-31-07 02:32 PM	#53
I see	Snicker-snack	Jul-31-07 06:25 PM	#58
not offended at all	pookieblue	Jul-31-07 09:56 PM	#66
Maybe she was just confused...	badgerpup	Jul-30-07 06:10 PM	#9
n/t	cynatnite	Jul-30-07 06:10 PM	#10
She should have asked Tammy Faye what her cancer was like.	dbaker41	Jul-30-07 06:14 PM	#11
Do you know what MS is like?	AnotherGreenWorld	Jul-30-07 06:21 PM	#16
Age 65 is no longer "the golden years"	Bluebear	Jul-30-07 08:22 PM	#40
Regardless,	AnotherGreenWorld	Jul-31-07 02:23 AM	#46
You know, sadly, all this shows is how out of touch the Romneys	Raven	Jul-30-07 06:14 PM	#12
Might she not be worried that that is her future,	AnotherGreenWorld	Jul-30-07 06:51 PM	#30
It's actually a pretty understandable statement	AnotherGreenWorld	Jul-30-07 06:20 PM	#14
Wow, she's just as sensitive and compassionate as the Mittenfurher	youngdem	Jul-30-07 06:21 PM	#15
that's nothing compared to what my husband's stepmother has said	bleedingheart	Jul-30-07 06:23 PM	#17
Yikes	Der Blaue Engel	Jul-31-07 07:42 PM	#60
I post on Leroy's blog pretty regularly. It's a great community.	flamingyouth	Jul-30-07 06:26 PM	#18
I'm sooo sorry flamingyouth. God boess you! n/t	Auntie Bush	Jul-30-07 06:54 PM	#31
sympathy	abq e streeter	Jul-30-07 06:28 PM	#19
I'm sorry but I see no reason for anyone here to trash this woman on this comment	truedelphi	Jul-30-07 06:36 PM	#20
Agreed...I deleted what I typed after rereading and thinking about it n/t	cynatnite	Jul-30-07 06:44 PM	#25
Regardless of what she has or wish she had, it was an insensitive	babylonsister	Jul-30-07 07:11 PM	#34
Oh please, get off of your throne and be a Democrat with some	madmunchie	Jul-31-07 08:18 PM	#63
Well thought out post n/t	Gelliebeans	Jul-30-07 08:38 PM	#41
I think the anger,	ulysses	Jul-30-07 08:45 PM	#44
Oh I do agree - but I also see MS as isolating	truedelphi	Jul-31-07 12:03 PM	#49
As Callous As Her Husband! n/t	lse7581011	Jul-30-07 06:37 PM	#22
She should see how Tony Snow feels about that dumb statement.	maveric	Jul-30-07 06:43 PM	#24
An incredibly callous and thoughtless statement, but...	bicentennial_baby	Jul-30-07 06:47 PM	#28
My favorite Mitt Romney line:	joeunderdog	Jul-30-07 08:09 PM	#38
I present you the new number 1 for next week's Top 10 Conservative Idiots.	DutchLiberal	Jul-30-07 08:12 PM	#39
Can anyone recognize someone saying what they thought after being diagnosed...	cynatnite	Jul-30-07 08:41 PM	#42
Agreed	tammywammy	Jul-30-07 08:52 PM	#45
Absolutely! Spot On!	Radicalman	Jul-31-07 06:48 PM	#59
That's funny...	mcctatas	Jul-31-07 02:31 AM	#47
Wow, and people say that Pugs are heartless!	madmunchie	Jul-31-07 08:47 PM	#65
from the people magazine interview	pookieblue	Jul-31-07 01:46 PM	#50
As a person with a chronic illness that is not cancer,	BluePatriot	Jul-31-07 02:36 PM	#55
The last thing I want to do is defend a Romney, but one of the common symptoms of MS is depression	nonconformist	Jul-31-07 02:38 PM	#56
I don't like her husband, but there's no call for criticizing her for being honest	benEzra	Jul-31-07 08:15 PM	#62
As a cancer veteran (I hate saying "survivor"), she does not anger me.	Contrary1	Jul-31-07 08:20 PM	#64

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