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MissMorrigan -> RE: Jade 'says goodbyes to family' (3/23/2009 7:09:11 AM)
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ORIGINAL: AquaticSub
You know... I grew up walking the halls of cancer wards with my father, holding onto an American Girl doll in one arm and my father's large hand with the other. I wanted to spend time with my father, he wanted to spend time with me and a little girl willing to talk cheered up some of his patients - something I didn't understand until later in my life. In my late teens, I worked a cancer treatment clinic over the summer. That was one of the hardest things I've ever done.
I only ever worked with the elderly and infrequently, people in their late 20s that had terminal illnesses ranging from cancer to aids but cared for in their homes. Despite the reason for my visiting my former clients, someone coming in to discuss anything but their illness was a breath of fresh air for them, and more so, someone that wasn't afraid. I can accept terminal illness in people who have led rich lives, but in ums, and people whose lives have been cut so tragically short is something I have a huge problem with. I am a mother, I have raised my boy who is now twenty five and he's independent, stable and a person I would be proud of knowing even were I not his mother. I am so fortunate to have been allowed that experience and if I went tomorrow, I would have not a single regret other than I would happily exchange my life now for someone who could have the opportunity of fulfilling their role as a mother.
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ORIGINAL: AquaticSubThe people who are looking down on her for this... I just can't understand you. I don't give a shit what she's done or said in the past. This isn't her penance for past mistakes. I care that people's awareness of cancer has gone up. I care that, in her last hour when most people would retreat from the public eye, she made a difference for her kids and that screenings have gone up. I hope that her children realize that their mother loved them and cared for them with her last breath. What they experience seeing all this when they are grown won't be harder than those children I saw coming in with their parents, who will have nothing but the knowledge that their mother was taken from them far too early.
That's what I also don't understand, nor the bollocks I read about it being her 'karma'.
She worked tirelessly to overcome her issues, she could easily have gone the same route as the caregivers in her life, ie her mother, grandmother and father, but she fought to change her life and succeeded. The newspapers have duly paid homage to a young lady whose courage is rarely seen and I don't begrudge her one single moment of airtime. She irked me initially with her ignorantly gobby demeanour, but it truly was such a special thing to be a part of watching her transformation and she remained true to who she was, unspoilt. One thing which is a rarity, is that her little ones will be able to watch video recordings of their mother as they mature, see how infectious a personality she had and feel proud to have had her for their mum.
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