• pigduck
  • Apr 21,2007
  • In: Rants

What’s up with Asia and Cancer?

It is awful to read such a depressing article. I guess it’s the truth.

People die from cancer because they cannot afford the exorbitant medical care. That is a depressing thought, isn’t it? We have to work really hard to afford better healthcare.

I would like to think it’s the West who are flooding the East with toxicities, selling us things that are harmful to our health, marketing it to us gullible folkd that it will enhance our lifestyle. Instead, it’s filling their pockets.

But then, cancer strikes anybody, doesn’t it? Even to the innocent or those who are cautious. How many of us are truly careful though? How many of us can say we live in an environment that’s relatively free of toxins? We drive cars, we eat preserved foods, we deal with microwaves and radiation on a daily basis… we go to public places and breathe in secondary smoke, we walk the streets and it’s full of dangerous pesticides…

To be damned. It’s tragic. Jesus Christ, come back soon!

Here’s the article, “Asia’s cancer rates to spike by 2020“.

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  • KETS
    April 27th, 2007 at 1:23 am

    You would “like” to think it’s the West causing the Cancer in Asian countries. Why? I am fighting it now. I went in with what I thought to be a hernia, that after eight months of ignoring,I finally saw the Doctor. How you feel, hear, experience life when you see the doctors mouth move as if in slow motion and through an echo hear “you have cancer”, it is something I will never forget. My first thoughts were “I’m in my 30’s”, “I have a wife and two babies”, “Did he just say it looks bad?”. I NEVER thought for a second, nor did I wish to think, it must be someone from the East, or someone from a different religion or political belief. When you are told that you have a better than 50% chance to die, such petty hatreds lose their passion.
    So I went from fighting Democrats to Fighting Stage 3 Cancer.
    I hope you experience this change without ever having to hear those dreaded words. I sincerely do.

  • pigduck
    April 28th, 2007 at 7:49 pm

    Dear KETS,

    I don’t know if you will ever return to read my reply.

    I wish I didn’t have to say this. In fact, I hate it when people say it to me but then how else should I start? I would like to say first of all, I am sorry to hear about your fight. I hope you are coping well and seeing fruitful results.

    I am sorry if I have offended you in any way. I apologise if I seemed heartless and petty.

    I will never fully understand how it feels like to sit in the doctor’s office and hear the words, “you have cancer”… unless of course, I am unfortunate enough to have to hear those words one day.

    But this doesn’t mean I do not have an inkling of what it feels like. I have felt the anguish of having to hear that one of my parents has cancer. My legs buckled, I felt light-headed, stunned, shocked. I cried too. Those were my initial reactions.

    It has been surreal. It still is unbelievable. I still sit around and wonder if all of this is real… I had never imagined in my whole life that one of my parents would have cancer. Never. But it has happened.

    Even typing this out is quite unreal.

    It makes it easier for me to blame others. Isn’t it easier to do that? You wonder how could this happen? Oh, surely it must be because of this and this and that…

    I posted that article up because it scares me to think that more people might have to suffer such dire circumstances in Asia.

    It scares me to think what if those people do not have money to afford medication, then what?

    It scares me because people are still so laissez faire … they still go on destroying their health by feeding it toxicities… by not giving a damn.

    It scares me because there are greedy, heartless people out there who are raping the land, exploiting the people and not caring how they are murdering other people. Is it indirectly or directly?

  • Christina
    May 1st, 2007 at 10:45 pm

    I am so sorry to hear that you both have been faced with this very harsh and devistating disease. Hopefully with more funding, there will be breakthroughs which will help bring an end to this terrible illness. The company I work for is donating money to towards the fight against cancer. You can find out how to be part of it at http://www.savedianesjob.com.

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