the truth

It has come to my attention that some very narrow minded people in the World think all illness is caused by diet and that the World would be a wonderful, beautiful place if we all just ate fruit. Granted, a healthy natural diet is very beneficial and some people do get ill from eating processed junk. BUT not all people. (Although I do recommend that people eat healthily - just don't go nuts).

Even tribal communities, that eat the most natural diet going, get things like cancer. It just takes one, ONE little cell in your body to mutate and go through mitosis for cancer to start. And there are people who do just live off plants who get cancer as well. So ignorance is not bliss little hippy people. And I think if Hodgkin's lymphoma was due to diet, it wouldn't be so rare to get it. And I can think of a lot of people who eat worse than me. I'm pretty healthy.

I whole heartedly believe my cancer is genetic, due to nuclear radiation exposure passed down through the generations. Which has also affected other family members immune systems. Now that's why nuclear bombs are bad!! But at the end of the day - who knows?!! The scientists don't even know why we get Hodgkin's yet.

Now.... there are some other people I've noticed who like to make money out of this cancer thing too. The all singing, all happy, you can just eat fruit and do loads of exercise while you have cancer people. Let me tell you, although I'm pretty positive, there is nothing fun, happy or even sexy about cancer. Nor do I believe anyone having chemotherapy has enough energy to juice all of their meals and then exercise all day. And as much as I think it's good to have positive things for cancer patients, I think it gives a false hope. Sometimes you really have to be honest!! You can have fun (yep), you can eat healthily (but it's not always easy when your mouth is sore and on fire and you feel like crap and even the thought of a banana makes you want to hurl and water feels like acid), you can be sexy (but you may suffer from bloating, constipation, spot outbreaks, balding, weight loss, depression etc), you can go out running and dancing and skipping (but you may suffer from chronic fatigue and manage a few minutes walking before you feel like an 80 year old climbing a mountain!)

I'm not trying to be negative here - but I don't think anyone should take away the true extent of cancer. It's very easy to pretend that it's easy and make people believe you. But is the worry not then that people who really struggle feel like they are abnormal? When in actual fact, it's probably pretty horrible for everyone.