The SCAR Project, and inspired still image and documentary project, honors the valour of these young breast cancer survivors. These images show strength, resolve and a way forward.
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
The SCAR Project by artist David Jay
The SCAR Project, and inspired still image and documentary project, honors the valour of these young breast cancer survivors. These images show strength, resolve and a way forward.
Monday, July 11, 2011
Suzanne Somers Puts the "Dumb" Back in "Blond" Part I
Suzanne Somers appeared on CNN's Piers Morgan's talk show tonight crowing about her anti-aging, hormonal injected, sixty-supplements-a-day, organic food, tequila drinking secret to curing cancer and reversing aging. The sixty-four-year-old actress who played Chrissy Snow, the blond tool from the 70's show "Three's Company,"believes herself to be the voice in the wilderness calling all of us cancer patients and survivors from our heavy slumber. Her stage IV ego is matched by her ignorant assumption that she speaks for the cancer community.
Somers said that those of us who choose traditional cancer treatment are passive victims of a two billion dollar business. While she admitted that chemotherapy cures some cancers--she cited Lance Armstrong's cure--she personally believes that for the rest of us it is a chemo for dollars scam by the medical establishment. She insists that chemo is not a cure for breast cancer (and she would know 'cause she's a celebrity, right?).
But here's the part where I wanted to punch her fat, lumpy, stem-cell transplanted face: she insists that those of us who have had chemotherapy have permanently altered or damaged DNA--that every cell in our body carries what she referred to as a little kerosene that will eventually start a smouldering grassfire of cancer. She condescendingly looked into the camera's lens and suggested that those of us who chose traditional medicine, who dragged ourselves to chemo, wigs and ball caps warming our bald heads, are now ticking time bombs.
When she was diagnosed with breast cancer (2004) she refused the chemo, radiation and the after-breast-cancer drug Tamoxifen that "the rest of us," poor bitches we, have invested in. According to Somers, we cancer survivors have chosen to age. But she's the one that's clueless.
Isn't aging the side-effect of living longer?
My medical team and I worked together on my treatment. Back on that dark day of diagnosis, my rock star oncologist told me, "We're going for cure." Like many of you, I didn't blindly or passively accept their prescription. I sought second opinions. I chose my surgeon and treatment center. My med team saved my life. I was wide awake while I made the choices that became an investment in the rest of my life. How dare this goofy actress suggest that we--all of us cancer survivors--are sleeping?!
Check back for Part II: "Suzanne Somers Thinks She's Not Aging"
Somers said that those of us who choose traditional cancer treatment are passive victims of a two billion dollar business. While she admitted that chemotherapy cures some cancers--she cited Lance Armstrong's cure--she personally believes that for the rest of us it is a chemo for dollars scam by the medical establishment. She insists that chemo is not a cure for breast cancer (and she would know 'cause she's a celebrity, right?).
But here's the part where I wanted to punch her fat, lumpy, stem-cell transplanted face: she insists that those of us who have had chemotherapy have permanently altered or damaged DNA--that every cell in our body carries what she referred to as a little kerosene that will eventually start a smouldering grassfire of cancer. She condescendingly looked into the camera's lens and suggested that those of us who chose traditional medicine, who dragged ourselves to chemo, wigs and ball caps warming our bald heads, are now ticking time bombs.
When she was diagnosed with breast cancer (2004) she refused the chemo, radiation and the after-breast-cancer drug Tamoxifen that "the rest of us," poor bitches we, have invested in. According to Somers, we cancer survivors have chosen to age. But she's the one that's clueless.
Isn't aging the side-effect of living longer?
My medical team and I worked together on my treatment. Back on that dark day of diagnosis, my rock star oncologist told me, "We're going for cure." Like many of you, I didn't blindly or passively accept their prescription. I sought second opinions. I chose my surgeon and treatment center. My med team saved my life. I was wide awake while I made the choices that became an investment in the rest of my life. How dare this goofy actress suggest that we--all of us cancer survivors--are sleeping?!
Check back for Part II: "Suzanne Somers Thinks She's Not Aging"
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