I Hate Cancer

Duck duck goose. This time life choose my dad. We recently found out he has a rare type of blood cancer, 2 types actually, untreatable. I live in another state and cannot be there to take care of him and my heart is so broken. I've tried doing so much research on holistic and alternative treatments, not to replace anything his doctor recommends, but as an addition to their treatments. I know he's not eating well and not exercising, as well as took up smoking again from all the stress. Is this what life is? You work a bullshit job that you hate for your entire life, living paycheck to paycheck, just to die before you ever get to retire and relax. I know this is no one fault, this is a part of life.. I just DO NOT want to wake up one day when I'm much older and look back to realize I have done nothing with my life but sit on my computer, too depressed to go outside and have a life.

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UreBesFrend · M

Sorry to hear about your dad. Sign up as a regular blood donor, it may not save your dad, but it might help prolong someone elses life, and you become an unsung hero.

I imagine they give your dad transfusions to combat that?

You are right about wasting your life, get out there and do the things you want while you are healthy, don't wait until you retire or you may miss it all.

AnonymouslyMe · 36-40, F

Whenever I ask him about what treatments they are doing, he just says he's waiting on more tests. I think he doesn't want me to know how sick he is or what's really going on. We are not very close... but he did say how he had to take care of his dad for the last few years of his life and refused to let me see him like that.

UreBesFrend · M

😣