sraun: red blood cells (leukemia)
sraun ([personal profile] sraun) wrote2010-06-06 10:41 am
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It's National Cancer Survivors Day

It is National Cancer Survivors Day.

I'm a six year survivor of Large Granular Lymphocyte Leukemia. This is in no way a surprise to my oncologist - he claims I have the common cold of the leukemia / cancer world. He says people die of something else, practically always unrelated. He's had people live forty years with this. Really, it impacts my life less than my Type II Diabetes - for the cancer, I take eight little pills once a week, and I'm done with it.

[identity profile] kalmn.livejournal.com 2010-06-06 04:57 pm (UTC)(link)
i'm glad. i remember i was so worried.
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[identity profile] 17catherines.livejournal.com 2010-06-06 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations anyway!

I think the cancer world needs more common colds in it.

[identity profile] mizzlaurajean.livejournal.com 2010-06-07 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
While I wish you didn't have any cancer I'm glad it's the common cold version.

My grandfather's prostate cancer was well controlled and his urologist told him it was not what he would die from. His doctor was right.