In regards to my last post

I said, "Please believe you can, and beat it." I want to go on the record as saying I do NOT mean that "attitude is everything" and "if you just have a positive attitude, you can beat cancer." That's bunk. That's hogwash. That's a guilt-addicted societies subtle way of placing blame on people battling a deadly disease. I apologize for my poorly chosen words.

What I DO mean is this: Seeing the losses I've seen devestates me. It makes me want to lose hope--in the beatability of cancer, in medical advances, sometimes (only sometimes) in the goodness of life. I can't imagine how it would be to be the one with the diagnosis of cancer and witnessing losses.

There is hope... there must be. And each person that continues to survive in the war against this beast is a beacon to me and to others that hope is still alive. For this, I thank you.