From: EM ( -96.226.36.35)
Subject: Janet and Marilyn
Date: May 2, 2008 at 3:39 am PST
In Reply to: Re: Sad about Dad's diagnosis posted by Marilyn on May 1, 2008 at 8:42 pm:
I kept quiet yesterday when I read Janet's comments about the "self-caused" illness and her questions about the money spent on such people. Now here it is again today and I've allowed these words to cut into a wound that's still bleeding and make it bleed even more.
You'll have to forgive me but I decidedly do NOT understand what you mean about "using resources for a self-induced illness". At what point in my daughter's treatment for her "self-induced" illness was she no longer worthy of treatment? After the first botched surgery to install a port? The 2nd? The 2nd round of chemo? The 8th? The first radiation? The 18th? After the med induced diabetes? After the 2 am seizures in my bed, lying right next to me? After the lung cancer metsed to her ovary? To her brain? After she needed a wheel chair? After she became a baby again?
There may have been some folks, complete strangers, along our 2 year path to hell who felt as you do, but I'm thankful they had the decency and the humanity to keep it to themselves.
Enjoy the Tent. It may be a long time before I heal from this.
