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Cancer Support

Solly Mack

(93,433 posts)

7. Good rant.

Reply to Tab (Original post)

Sun Mar 6, 2016, 05:42 PM

Mar 2016

I'd rather the straight up than the "I know someone who knows someone who did this..." positive spin that helps the person telling the story feel better about it all.

That said, I don't want anyone fixated on a date either. Even if I have only 6 months, I'd rather try and live those months than for people to sit around ticking off my time.

When I was first diagnosed I had to remind a few people that I was still me and to stop with the long faces and hushed tones.