re: #234 klys

I am (fortunately? unfortunately?) unable to offer encouragement from a personal standpoint, but my grandmother did treatment following detection of a breast cancer tumor over 15 years ago and is cancer-free, still going strong. I’m grateful every day to still have her in my life - and grateful to see someone who has beaten it, because I know my odds of facing the same thing are pretty good.

There are a lot of people who have beat cancer and gone on to live long and meaningful lives, and it’s worth giving it the best possible fight.

i have friends in the US who have had it, and survived. I’ve asked them for help, too. My own family’s experience direct with cancer has been thankfully very limited. My uncle and his wife both contracted and died from bladder cancer, but they were well into their 70s at the time.