Nobody sings songs about cancer of the anus

Todays blog title is brought to you by my beloved other half (if you haven't already guessed, we share a very similar disturbing sense of humour).

random fact time..... songs written about cancer, or feature the word cancer in the lyrics (the things you do when your bored (not that that happens much).

My chemical romance - Cancer Lyrics 
 NB... peeps this is a ripper of doom and gloom

Various artisits singing - Just stand up (to Cancer)
Get your pom poms out with this little ditty... there are several more like this... picture Live Aid styles but about lumps, bumps, chemo and hair loss

Randy Stonehill - Lung Cancer
As positive as it sounds, down to the description of the other health risks of smoking... RANDOM

Sufjan Stevens - Casimir Pulaski Day
Well up on the doom and gloom front

Nirvana - Heart Shaped box
debate is still going as to if the cancer reference is about actual cancer or actually about Courtney Love (either way being inflicted by either isn't fun).


So anyho, the point of my blog today.... well nothing really, just like a lot of things, there is no real point to it other than it just is.... but I bet you smiled about at least one things written there.

Smiling is good, it means there is light and life.... so often Cancer is seen as doom and gloom, I guess that is what sells movies, books and bad songs (leaving Nirvana out of that list tho).

I plan on changing this, well at least as much as I can, Cancer sucks, yep, it has the potential of not ending well for many people, stats for different people and different cancers vary, not everyone is the same. I do want people to know that not everyone with Cancer has a one way ticket.

One thing that has really changed my view of people with cancer (its very different being on the other side of the label) is that over the past couple of weeks of going in and out of the hospital and being around the Radiotherapy department, is that everyone smiles at one another. Its not that we are happy to be there, or that we are happy to have cancer, its about being there for each other, and that knowing that the other person is most likely feeling as shitty and crap as you are, that a smile (no matter how big or small) is one way they can acknowledge that your not alone.

Smiling is good..... do it more and often....

OK so enough randomly rambling for the night....

Night x