Tuesday, November 20, 2012

frustration

I have this friend; and she has early detection breast cancer.  I have known her since high school, and that was a long time ago.

She is probably going to die.  Horribly.  Screaming.  Spitting and peeing blood, etcetera.  It will be awful, and she thinks that she's got it covered.

It is early enough for safe treatment, and it is a slow growing mass (at the moment), but she is going to treat it "holistically" and not with any conventional treatments.  She is convinced that the treatments will kill her; and that meditation and the power of positive thought... will prevail.

She has been paying this quack "Ayurvedic" practitioner, who has been taking her money for a long time... and she believes. Except... she's not getting enough sleep; she's not eating healthy foods; and she definitely isn't in a mindset where her powers of constructive conciousness can prevail.   In other words, she is fucking delusional.  I blame it on her long term denial of the reality of life, but there is no way I can reach her.  And I care what happens...

And, i have to accept it.


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