cancer

I definitely just spent the last two hours (Okay...like one and a half...it's still on and I couldn't wait to write) of my life watching "Crazy, Sexy, Cancer" on TLC. It's amazing how much some people actually complain about their life and how bad off they are because it so happens that they don't have everything they want, when some people are dieing as we speak.
The documentary was about actress Kris Carr, and her struggle with the overwhelming disease. It shows when she was diagnosed, all of her hospital visits, the support she had, the programs she attended and the 1000s of pages she read to fight for her life. I find it truly amazing to find and see this strength in people that you never knew they really had. Nobody is prepared for the unexpected, and there is no way to prepare for it.
Ahhhh I can't even think about writing a journalistic point of view right now. Just every time I see someone who is willing to share their experience and survival with death it inspires me so much. It's crazy how many people go on everyday not knowing a thing about death and not appreciating their life more, and of course if something doesn't affect them then why should they care? That really bothers me. My step-dads mom is a survivor of Breast Cancer and even before that I spent those Saturday monrnings doing cancer walks with my step-mom and the hospital she works for. It's not a lot to ask really to donate even $5 a year per family. Treatments are expensive, hospital stays are expensive, books and doctors and chemo and resorts can add up to hundreds of thousands of dollars. I just wish people we're more aware of the world around them and that they would focus on the important things instead of which shirt to buy and which country we're in war with next. So lame.

check it out, get involved. do something.
www.komen.org
www.dana-farber.org
www.cancer.org