don't call people this

[sway2sway]

cancer girl....little leukemia girl

I wrote a letter to the editor of the paper today. I'd had enough of their crap. A few days ago the front page was 'cancer girl's family thank supporters'. A nice enough story, maybe one the family would want to even keep, but not with that fucking headline. If I was the mama, I'd probably cry everytime I looked at. Then today, it's something like 'little leukemia girl misses thanksgivng dinner'. go fuck yourselves- is what I thought. Is that news? maybe it is news, I don't know. I'm on rampage and I didn't like it.

Anyway, here's my little letter, I didn't swear in it though, I save all the profanity for the philadelphonic outreach program.

"I am writing in response to the front page headline about "cancer girl"(oct 9). I found this to be a very insensitive, if not sensationalist headline. I realize that headlines need to be clear and concise; but, at what expense? In today's edition (Oct 11), I read another article about the same child. This headline referred to her as "little leukemia child". In my opinion, this little girl happens to have a disease that she is very bravely fighting. She is not a disease that happens to belong to a girl."

[34redsox34]

you go sway.

[tinkerlion]

way to go sway. people are affected by terrible illnesses, but they shouldn't be defined by them.

[Barefoot2Dream]

If someone had the audacity to refer to my son as "little diabetes boy" I would come completely unglued. :mad: Someone has to call these idiots on the carpet and I am so glad you took time to make a statement, Sway. Ignorance is not bliss. I know from personal experience the effects living with a chronic illness has on a child. A formal apology to the family (on the front page) should be made from these jerks.

[lietuvaite]

I am so glad you took time to make a statement, Sway.

people are often too busy to do what you did, so i commend you, sway. that headline would break my heart if it were my little girl.

[sway2sway]

a small victory

in the same paper I wrote to, today I see the headline, "family tries to cope with girl's rare cancer."

That's all I wanted, the girl to be put before the cancer.
nice.

[tinkerlion]

congratulations.

[sway2sway]

yes, thankyou.
(where were my manners, that was my step in the 2 step)

[EmJaye]

I have a co-worker that often refers to her son's military-style haircut as a "cancer cut." This absolutely makes me cringe, since my mom has been battling cancer for 4 years now. I finally had to sit her down and tell her that while she may not see it as insensitive, that it makes my skin crawl and that I felt it was inconsiderate.

Good work!

[sway2sway]

when I was 19 or so I applied to work at Subway (coincidentally, the same Subway in which I walked into a door, just last week), during the interview the lady manager asked how I was feeling, if I was getting stronger. I'm thinking to myself wtf you talkin bout subway lady, but I say Pardon.
My shaved head was growing back in, at that nice velvetty stage if you rub in the right direction; but the old bat thought I had undergone chemotherapy recently...cancer cut, as you said. I didn't get the job, she probably thought I was frail and sickly, or just crazy (how hard is it to make a sandwich?).

[tinkerlion]

(how hard is it to make a sandwich?).

not hard, my first job was at subway. i stayed a month before i quit.

sorry to hear about your mom emjay. i'll keep her in my thoughts.

[lietuvaite]

I have a co-worker that often refers to her son's military-style haircut as a "cancer cut."

I cannot believe people can be that stupid. emjay, i will keep your mom in my thoughts too.

[scurfing]

Not many people out there have both a social conscience and the guts to back it up. All power to you Sway.

[sway2sway]

thanks, it's growing as I age.

[scurfing]

thanks, it's growing as I age.

As my grandpa say's "Age is beauty baby, both body and soul"

[sway2sway]

does your grandpa really say 'baby'? (cool gramps)

[scurfing]

Yeah, eccentric is probably the best word for him. hehe

I'm the youngest out of all the Grand kids hence the baby!