Other people's cancer

I went to the UC Davis AYA Cancer Advisory Board meeting yesterday and met a young woman with some kind of bone cancer (a sarcoma, I can't remember which type). She was diagnosed when she was little, then had a recurrence in high school.

She lost an arm bone when she was little. It was replaced with a titanium "bone". In high school she lost a leg in order to save her life. She still has only one leg. She gets around on crutches.

Sometimes I am so pissed at the world of brain cancer that I look at other cancers like they are inferior and not as crazy or as bad.

But that is a bullshit mentality. I look at this girl and all the fucked-up-ness she's endured and realize that all cancers are evil.

I am ashamed of myself for thinking of us brain cancer people as the worst of all cancers. It's not true. We all have baggage and suffer horrible consequences.