Admins and mods, and everyone - apologies if this is in the wrong section or is inappropriate.
For a while - may be about 2 decades - I have started to notice that people I know, or ones that I hear about get diagnosed with cancer. They go through the conventional treatments, most recover. Lately there's been 3 that has me a bit more puzzled. 2 of the 3 have passed:
One is a youtuber - some brain cancer that was aggressive, prognosis was 1 year to 1.5 years, gone in about 6 months after diagnosis, 60-ish in age. He was previously a practising doctor, army veteran. Passed recently.
The other is a army veteran, athlete, looks to be 40s - 50s, brain cancer, passed very recently.
The 3 one is still alive, a young kid of just a year and a half, has stage IV brain cancer that has spread to spine and hip. From what I heard is going through chemo.
I might be joining the wrong dots. There might not have ever been any dots. But in my tiny world, to even see THREE people suffer or die of similar illnesses in just TWO weeks has really got me puzzled.
Last year we lost someone in the family to cancer, some sort that is in the abdominal cavity. 50-ish, non smoker, non drinker.
A couple of years prior someone else in the family died of, again, some abdominal cancer. 60-ish, non smoker, non drinker.
About a year before that, someone else also in the family also died of some abdominal cancer. 60-ish, non smoker, non drinker.
These people are not blood relatives. They are in-laws, partners. Of different races and lived all over the world.
Going back further in time, patients that I heard about mostly survive. WTAF has gone on that in about the past 5 years, that even with a social circle that is practically non-existent, that even I have seen or heard of medical treatments becoming insufficient?
This does not compute!
I don't want to veer off into talks about sprays in the skies or nuclear explosions or injections and all that. I mean, opinions are like a certain part of the anatomy that everyone has one. And frankly, be glad that you do have one and that it works. Seriously. Anyway.
This just makes no sense. How is it that society is getting sicker and sicker?
I don't know how well cannabis "helps", but if it gives back some quality of life to the sufferers, there is almost a higher (pun not intended) calling to grow.
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