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October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month
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<blockquote data-quote="Big Babooba" data-source="post: 611605" data-attributes="member: 5402"><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: DarkRed"><strong>It’s easy for me to be a wise ass. Being serious is difficult. This is one of the hardest things I’ve had to compose.</strong></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: DarkRed"><strong>This past July, my neighbor Denise died from breast cancer. She fought it for 10 years. She went through 22 different chemo and radiation treatment regimens. Though it all I saw her going through cycles of bloating up to wasting away – back to bloating up again. I don’t know how many times she lost her hair. (Her husband told me that it could be very demoralizing to a woman – I don’t know because I never traveled that road.)</strong></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: DarkRed"><strong>She was very active despite her illness. She volunteered for different cancer activities, She was the Survivor Recruiter and Chairperson for the American Cancer Society Relay For Life. She fought the disease and we thought that she had it licked.</strong></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: DarkRed"><strong>Last summer she told me that it was back. More treatments, but the disease was winning. Her husband told me that he was watching her die. There wasn’t anything more that could be done. Toward the end she was in and out of the hospital. Then she came home to die.</strong></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: DarkRed"><strong>She had friends and relatives coming to say goodbye – even the mailman. I wasn’t one of them. I wasn’t brave enough. I wish I did, but I knew I couldn’t.</strong></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: DarkRed"><strong>She didn’t give in to the disease. She fought. Denise made that bastard cancer come and take her. She fought a good fight. I learned a lot from her. I miss her.</strong></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: DarkRed"><strong>I feel that this video is totally inappropriate – it cheapens the cause. Your comment,“(guys, you may wanna fullsize the clip)” gives me the feeling that you cared more for the T&A than the message.</strong></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: DarkRed"><strong>Maybe I missed the meaning of your post but my feelings are dead on target.</strong></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: DarkRed"><strong>I’ve said my peace.</strong></span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Big Babooba, post: 611605, member: 5402"] [FONT=Arial Black][SIZE=3][COLOR=DarkRed][B]It’s easy for me to be a wise ass. Being serious is difficult. This is one of the hardest things I’ve had to compose.[/B][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][SIZE=3] [/SIZE] [FONT=Arial Black][SIZE=3][COLOR=DarkRed][B]This past July, my neighbor Denise died from breast cancer. She fought it for 10 years. She went through 22 different chemo and radiation treatment regimens. Though it all I saw her going through cycles of bloating up to wasting away – back to bloating up again. I don’t know how many times she lost her hair. (Her husband told me that it could be very demoralizing to a woman – I don’t know because I never traveled that road.)[/B][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][SIZE=3] [/SIZE] [FONT=Arial Black][SIZE=3][COLOR=DarkRed][B]She was very active despite her illness. She volunteered for different cancer activities, She was the Survivor Recruiter and Chairperson for the American Cancer Society Relay For Life. She fought the disease and we thought that she had it licked.[/B][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][SIZE=3] [/SIZE] [FONT=Arial Black][SIZE=3][COLOR=DarkRed][B]Last summer she told me that it was back. More treatments, but the disease was winning. Her husband told me that he was watching her die. There wasn’t anything more that could be done. Toward the end she was in and out of the hospital. Then she came home to die.[/B][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][SIZE=3] [/SIZE] [FONT=Arial Black][SIZE=3][COLOR=DarkRed][B]She had friends and relatives coming to say goodbye – even the mailman. I wasn’t one of them. I wasn’t brave enough. I wish I did, but I knew I couldn’t.[/B][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][SIZE=3] [/SIZE] [FONT=Arial Black][SIZE=3][COLOR=DarkRed][B]She didn’t give in to the disease. She fought. Denise made that bastard cancer come and take her. She fought a good fight. I learned a lot from her. I miss her.[/B][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][SIZE=3] [/SIZE] [FONT=Arial Black][SIZE=3][COLOR=DarkRed][B]I feel that this video is totally inappropriate – it cheapens the cause. Your comment,“(guys, you may wanna fullsize the clip)” gives me the feeling that you cared more for the T&A than the message.[/B][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][SIZE=3] [/SIZE] [FONT=Arial Black][SIZE=3][COLOR=DarkRed][B]Maybe I missed the meaning of your post but my feelings are dead on target.[/B][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][SIZE=3] [/SIZE] [FONT=Arial Black][SIZE=3][COLOR=DarkRed][B]I’ve said my peace.[/B][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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