There but for the --
For the what? Bloody goddamn fucking hell. There is no such thing as grace, and there sure as hell is no justice. You can't tell me there is. I want to puke and cry and I feel a little ashamed to be so grateful for my happy lucky little life, but also there's this plain old blinding rage.
I love this woman for documenting it all so honestly and speaking for all those who can't or who don't or who haven't yet, and for making the rest of us so goddamn uncomfortable. She's a wonderful writer, gloriously articulate, hilarious, and her blog As the Tumor Turns is indeed not for the squeamish or faint of heart. Now writing as lymphopo, the blogger formerly known as grannyvibe is:
"A single woman in my fifties, in debt, no income, no health insurance, and then that grapefruit-sized tumor wedged between my lungs turns out to be a malignant high-grade highly aggressive stage IV lymphoma. How much worse can it get? Bwahahaha! Stay tuned and find out."Her son's blog, the highly excellent finnegan's wake-up call has a donation link, if you're so inclined.
This shit happens all too often. To too many people. And I'm not talking about just the serious illness part of the picture. "Will anyone ever believe me if I tell them that the cancer is ofthen the least of my worries?" lymphopo asks here. And answers: "In all honesty, I feel more debilitating anxiety over my financial disaster; deeper heartache over my foundering relationship; greater terror over the state of the world."
Yeah.
Thanks, belledame, for the link.
2 comments:
Sure. I was kind of ambivalent about it, i think because apparently she is--maybe not about visibility so much at this point, but, as she put it in her most recent post, about accepting help. it sucks that shame would come into this as well, but i guess it often does, right?
and, people are awful. i mean, angry--you don't even want to know about the post i found that led me to her new site. who the fuck lectures a woman with stage IV cancer about how to be a "positive role model for suffering," let alone suggests she's just bitter because no one is holding a fundraiser for her -without offering to help.- at a FEMINIST website--one which i'd bitched about far too often, so i did restrain myself--just--from the fresh assault i was going to make on its owner (who did tell the asshole in question to fuck off but, i note, hasn't seen fit to say anything to Liz herself) (three guesses who)--i figured there had to be a more productive response, you know, so.
'In all honesty, I feel more debilitating anxiety over my financial disaster; deeper heartache over my foundering relationship; greater terror over the state of the world."
Wow. Just wow...Thanks for the links.
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