What’s something that irks you about cancer outside of the obvious?
For me it’s when people say I (people telling me) “beat” cancer. I can’t stand it, I didn’t beat shit, I am still fighting every fuckin day with the physical and mental symptoms from treatment that will never go away. Another thing that bothers me is the amount that “cancer” is used by others to describe diminutive hardships. ie. “X is like cancer”. I know I can’t control what people say and a lot of people are ignorant when it comes cancer. I myself was before I got sick, but it irks me enough to make a post about it I suppose.
The biggest thing I absolutely can’t stand is those that deliberately try to use their cancer to get internet clout, free things, or pity. I understand treatment costs a lot of money, in total mine cost 3.5 million. I was blessed enough to have excellent insurance that paid for the majority of it although I still owe a solid 5 figure sum. Those who need go fund me’s or donations I have no problem with. It’s the people that don’t need it that beg that really pisses me off.
What are things that irk you or your pet peeves when it comes to others, be it family and friends or strangers, or media or any pet peeve you might have when it comes to cancer?
Disclaimer* if you say you beat cancer I have no problem with it at all, it’s just not something I say myself. I am not referring to survivors or those sick. I am referring to others telling me “you beat cancer”.