knowledge from a cancer patient ---Stop being stupid and smartin up a bit... before you die.
by Michellie Greenwell on Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 9:33pm
Dear Friends...
Dec 14th 2010 was the day my life changed when i was diagnosed with hodgkins lymphoma, I am 15 years old and in grade 10, though most of you already know that.
having cancer sucks... the chemotheropy, the surgery, the HORRIBLE side effects, the weekly blood tests, the cautous life that i now have of watching my sugar intake, NO alcohol and remembering all the drugs that i found out i am allergic to. The pain, the knowledge, the tears and smiles,the constant watch of who is sick, who is smoking. Life is soo much different now it is hard to imagine what i will and wont be able to do from now on.
**some of my dearest friends or their families smoke or do drugs. I, my self can not change that. i wish i could, but its not my decisions or my body that i am messing up by doing it. The fact that i can not protect them and that i have to watch them do this to them selves kills me on the inside. I know for a fact that i would not like to see them go through the cancer scheme far down the road from the decisions they have made today.**
what I want is for people to think about what you are doing. even if this note does nothing and you still smoke, fine, go for it. i just am doing what i feel is right and putting it out there that it is bad, it kills lives.
it is now somewhat dangerous for me to be around smoke, second hand smoke... etc, but because it seems to be everywhere here, i have no choice, i am protecting my body from what is right and wrong.
I am not acusing ANYONE of their decisions, what they do is up to them, but that doesnt mean i wont stop trying to protect them.
please help me do this,
sencerely,
Michellie J Greenwell. - 2011 Cancer surviver.
Dec 14th 2010 was the day my life changed when i was diagnosed with hodgkins lymphoma, I am 15 years old and in grade 10, though most of you already know that.
having cancer sucks... the chemotheropy, the surgery, the HORRIBLE side effects, the weekly blood tests, the cautous life that i now have of watching my sugar intake, NO alcohol and remembering all the drugs that i found out i am allergic to. The pain, the knowledge, the tears and smiles,the constant watch of who is sick, who is smoking. Life is soo much different now it is hard to imagine what i will and wont be able to do from now on.
**some of my dearest friends or their families smoke or do drugs. I, my self can not change that. i wish i could, but its not my decisions or my body that i am messing up by doing it. The fact that i can not protect them and that i have to watch them do this to them selves kills me on the inside. I know for a fact that i would not like to see them go through the cancer scheme far down the road from the decisions they have made today.**
what I want is for people to think about what you are doing. even if this note does nothing and you still smoke, fine, go for it. i just am doing what i feel is right and putting it out there that it is bad, it kills lives.
it is now somewhat dangerous for me to be around smoke, second hand smoke... etc, but because it seems to be everywhere here, i have no choice, i am protecting my body from what is right and wrong.
I am not acusing ANYONE of their decisions, what they do is up to them, but that doesnt mean i wont stop trying to protect them.
please help me do this,
sencerely,
Michellie J Greenwell. - 2011 Cancer surviver.
