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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He seems optimistic with his treatment plan - maybe they caught it early. I would love to hear more from him. He could really raise awareness.[/quote]

Did you read the article???[/quote]

Yes. He didn’t say what stage he is in or what treatment plan he’s doing or how they discovered it - hence I would like to hear more from him.[/quote]

I totally get this and used to feel the same way. I want to have a sense of how serious and it might save someone else's life to learn from his symptoms and experience. However, once it was me dealing with illness it was a different story and now I get it. If your prognosis is unclear or poor the last thing you need is people weeping and preparing for your funeral and even when it's early stage, you don't want people minimizing things because you still have a fight on your hands and it is emotionally draining.

I hate when people say "he doesn't OWE you anything." Of course that is true, but it's natural to wonder and want to learn from someone else's experience. However, once you are on the other side you see how hard it is. The worst is the people who try to find a reason to blame you. I had some experience dealing with that prior to illness because one of my kids had autism and no....I did not eat tuna during pregnancy or snort mercury or take antidepressants or have a husband with old sperm or have ripe eggs or sit my infant in front of screens or whatever...[/quote]

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