Does cancer know no mercy?

Question

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Answer 1

I was dignosed with cancer in April 2000 and since then I have fought a battle ( not willingly ) and am surprised that my body took the kind of bashing it did and I am alive today. Even doctors have no explaination. Coming to your question if cancer has any mercy - it has none and if one comes out of it its not because one has fought it but because one was lucky. Again lucky is a very relative term as even if one is declared cancer free - a part of you id already dead. In my case even though I am cancer free - I am faced with a life which is as good as not being alive. I look at myself as a dead man walking. If you see me - you will never believe the things I have been through where surgeries had become a routine and pain killers a part of my diet. I look totally normal, dress normally but.....
.... but I cannot eat or drink orally and have not even sipped a drop of water in the past seven years and never will as both my food and air passage have closed down for good. I survive only on high protien and fibre diets - all in liquid form and pumped in directly to my stomach. Then the next part is that I have no voice ( though I created one - and its under patent). So to put it again - even though I am alive - a part of me died leaving me to be a dead man walking.
However coming to the mercy bit - there is a great film that you may want to watch ; www.thecancermovie.com. I have nothing against the cancer and what it has done to me. I look at things in a more positive manner and guess thats why am never ever depressed. My life in the jet set to earn a name and money- took its toll. I never had the time to do anything worthwhile ( I did not even see my young sons for months at a time, my wife though supportive wondered so very often if I was married to her or my work ) and would work 18 hours a day, 7 days a week and 365 days a year and still want more - there was never enough time. I would be jet setting all over the world for business meetings and even during those travels, I never took even a day off to go and do a bit of sightseeing or a break. My secretaries in various places would take care of the shopping of the things that I would have to carry back for my wife, sons and mother. I never even knew what I was carrying back.
Then the cancer struck and with it the changes came around - I today, even though am like a dead man walking - I am able to appreciate my teenaged sons growing into fine young men, I can spend time with my wife, I no longer have to work day and night, I can spend time on all the other activities that I missed out for so long pre cancer. Its now the way one looks at it - was cancer merciful to me or did it destroy me? You need both hands to clap . You decide - the choice is yours.

Answer 2

Cancer does not choose it's victims, and it does not kill all who have it. I am thankful that there are many researchers, doctors, friends and family who are there to help find a cause, a cure, treatment, love and compassion! Sometimes I think that many thank God, yet not the doctors who have the knowledge to give us the treatments we need. God does give the doctors their gift of not only knowledge but mercy.

Answer 3

No it does not show any mercy! It really breaks your heart to see young kids like this suffering and dying from this terrible disease and to see the pain on their parent's faces as they have to watch them go through it. I give to St Judes Hospital for Children and watch all they do at the Hospital as they tell stories about what these children have to endure. It is really heartwrenching but it also shows the amazing courage and spirit these amazing young kids have.

Answer 4

to all cancer is the most merciless of all deadly diseases and it doesn't discriminate and i know this for fact for my wife and i just lost a relative from her side he was only 53, his deadly tumor was just below the right side of his ribcage and for about 5 years they thought he was going to beat it but it suddenly about 3 months ago took a turn for the worst and he died on 7.18.2014.

he did smoke quite heavily and was an alcoholic and i guess that's what did it plus he contracted pneumonia, his name was johnny, nicest man on earth but he told me in his final weeks that he blamed himself for the cancer and didn't care if he dies, well he got his wish. me he rest in peace for all eternity.

Answer 5

Cancer is not merciful. But, we have doctors, nurses, family and friends that are very compassionate to those that have it or had it. Thank God for loving people. Thank God for his love that can sustain people even in their darkest hour. I'm a breast cancer surviver.

Answer 6

Releasing Susan Atkins would be a gift for the lobby seeking to protect, or even extend, the death penalty. I oppose capital punishment, so I think a life sentence needs to be a life sentence.

Answer 7

I'd ask my Uncle, my dad and my baby brother, but cancer got them all.

Answer 8

No it does not .Just look in any pediatric ward or to any family member or friend.It does not discriminate.

Answer 9

if it did, my wonderful boyfriend would not have had to go through the struggles he's endured

Answer 10

unfortunatley my cousin died from cancer. it ate him up, from the butthole cancer. poor guy had to poop in a baggie.