Mama Blue Battling Cancer

[KitsapGuy]

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[AROS]

An Original 12, been such a diehard supporter from day 1. Well wishes of healing to you Mama Blue!

 

[Sports Hernia]

She’s tough. .... kick cancers ass Mama blue! We are with you!
I remember her being in the kingdome when I was a kid.

 

[jammerhawk]

She knows what it is to fight, fight like hell Mama Blue!

 

[Maulbert]

I wish her well, but I've never had any great fondness for 'celebrity' fans.

 

[hawkpride]

Mama Blue,

May the wave's from the King Dome's past, and the Clink Beast Quake guide you in your journey to where ever you go. You have a fighting spirit, so Cancer come on, lets kick some as....... :les:

 

[Ambrose83]

Screw cancer, I'm sitting with my dying father as i type
This.

 

[Ad Hawk]

Screw cancer, I'm sitting with my dying father as i type
this.

I'm so sorry.

 

[kf3339]

Screw cancer, I'm sitting with my dying father as i type
This.

Cancer is a terrible thing. I only hope your father isn't in any pain.

 

[kf3339]

Stay strong Mama Blue!

 

[sutz]

Well, that sucks. Best wishes to her, the embodiment of the long time Seahawks fans.

 

[Mad Dog]

As an oncologist I’m not a fan of the violent imagery we put onto patients. Cancer shouldn’t be viewed as a war, battle or fight. It just makes people feel even worse when they have setbacks because they think they didn’t “fight” hard enough.

Cancer is a journey whose end is uncertain and I encourage everyone that goes down that road to smell the roses along the way. Find joy where you can. Seek comfort over the rocky sections. Stay healthy and fit as much as you can. The people that can find that balance always seem to do better than those that struggle and fight.

 

[chris98251]

Have been fortunate to survive 3 times, I always go after it with a mentality I am going to get through it and get better, it is a fight, mentally the diagnoses is a kick in the teeth, you have to go after it aggressively mentally with a can do attitude and follow the recovery plan.

 

[Mad Dog]

Have been fortunate to survive 3 times, I always go after it with a mentality I am going to get through it and get better, it is a fight, mentally the diagnoses is a kick in the teeth, you have to go after it aggressively mentally with a can do attitude and follow the recovery plan.

I would say you have to go at it with a positive mental attitude rather than an "aggressive" one. The "can do" attitude is the right one. I encourage patients to "work" at being fit, positive and eating well. I try not to use violent or negative imagery such as struggle, fight, battle, beat, war, etc. I try to use other words like goals, tasks, hopes, etc which still give them energy to go through dealing with the disease.

But I recognize some people relate better to the fighting imagery but I find they get more often depressed and suffer more than those that work through the disease and treatment as a journey with goals and tasks to focus on. That may be because I deal with nearly uniformly fatal forms of cancer so it's a losing battle 99% of the time.

Congrats on getting past cancer 3 times. My wife has had one cancer successfully treated and I hope that's the last. It's one thing to treat the disease for a living and quite another to have it hit you at home.

 

[chris98251]

Have been fortunate to survive 3 times, I always go after it with a mentality I am going to get through it and get better, it is a fight, mentally the diagnoses is a kick in the teeth, you have to go after it aggressively mentally with a can do attitude and follow the recovery plan.

I would say you have to go at it with a positive mental attitude rather than an "aggressive" one. The "can do" attitude is the right one. I encourage patients to "work" at being fit, positive and eating well. I try not to use violent or negative imagery such as struggle, fight, battle, beat, war, etc. I try to use other words like goals, tasks, hopes, etc which still give them energy to go through dealing with the disease.

But I recognize some people relate better to the fighting imagery but I find they get more often depressed and suffer more than those that work through the disease and treatment as a journey with goals and tasks to focus on. That may be because I deal with nearly uniformly fatal forms of cancer so it's a losing battle 99% of the time.

Congrats on getting past cancer 3 times. My wife has had one cancer successfully treated and I hope that's the last. It's one thing to treat the disease for a living and quite another to have it hit you at home.

Thanks, I just have to have screenings every year now, the fortunate part is I caught all of them early and asked my doctor about the signs and skin malformations rather then let them manifest and grow worse.

Early is the key I think, less intrusive to fix, less chance of manifesting in other parts of the body.

Man Pride or being shy about this shit isn't worth while, Cancer doesn't care, get yourself checked if something isn't right, ask the questions.