so, my stepson was told today...

that the good news is "he gets to make a [fucking] wish." i haven't put it in the general pages, but our sweet boy has a very rare sort of cancer. i couldn't help but feel like the statement "hey! make a wish!" has really taken on a sinister feel for me. i am inexplicably angry. again.

 

wait, what do you mean?

 

Can he wish that he gets cured? *sigh* that's.... scary, I'm sorry hon

 

Is that like the Make a Wish Foundation or something like that?

 

thats what i am afraid of

 

Im so sorry.....but , never lose hope.....things happen all the time that cant be explained , so why not for your little boy ?????

 

the make a fucking wish foundation, last gasp of the terminally fucking ill. dave is barely holding it together. i had a fantastic conversation with tyler on the phone. he laughed so hard that everyone was freaking ecstatic. WTF? i had no idea. i have a way, in normal conversation, of bitching in a highly humorous way. i'm glad in retrospect that i had no idea how fucked up today was. did you know that cancer kids get fucking "bravery bucks' for every time they get chemo or some other therapy? man, this shit is so fucked up.

but hey, should he survive, he has an automatic college scholarship. since he's the top student in all of new mexico, so he's probably a shoo-in for harvard.

 

sorry KC

 

well i can't express how sorry i am that this is happening to him and his family...

You never know, sometimes people do pull through somehow...

Stay strong, and I know you will all be there for him.

 

Man... yet again... poor kid, honestly.

"Bravery bucks", that's fucken horrible.

 

oh fuck.

I'm sorry.

 

may seem horrible to us who don't have to live knowing that we have terminal cancer....

it may mean the world to those who do, same with the wishes - gives them something to be optimistic about

 

yes, there is nothing at all wrong with those organizations and what they do, its just that those are the last groups you want to hear that your kid needs...but they are just there to brighten a terrible situation

 

There could just be better things to be optimistic about. Can't they think of something better than "Bravery bucks", honestly.

Anyhow, that's beyond the point. This thread is about Tyler, I shalt not change the topic.

 

yeah, i have to confess, these are things you just don't want to hear from. tyler had a discussion today with another boy in the hospital about the chemo delivery inplant. the other boy told him it's way better than the other way, as he stared at the inplant hnging from tyler's arm.

 

It sucks all around.

 

Sucks when kids get cancer. Sucks when anyone gets cancer. Cancer sucks. Period.

 

i have to believe that there's some sort of protocol involved in telling some child they can make a fucking wish. otherwise it would be a freaking death sentence, right? but the www.wish.org site has no ingo on how they go about it.

but seriously, goddam bravery bucks?!!! WTF!??

 

rat, i have to say, that's one of the most endearing and sweetest statements i've ever seen you make. thank you.

 

here s the key phrase "Since 1980, the Make-A-Wish Foundation® has given hope, strength and joy to children with life-threatening medical conditions."

its "life threatening," not that they are incureable