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What’s in a name

tdomf_ad90e — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:31:49 +0000

Whether it’s “you have ___” or “you may get __ if ____”, or “since you’re a high risk for ___ we should do ___” I don’t think it matters much because the only real thing you hear at first is the one horrible word, cancer.
Why does your one name carry so many meanings? I don’t know many other words in the world that can mean so much, yet sometimes mean nothing at all. Well, I don’t know that it ever means nothing at all – but we use the word so much in warnings (as in on cigarettes) where people don’t heed the warning – that I can only imagine it’s one of the few times where your name means nothing at all to people. Too bad too because I wonder if we feared your name as much as we do when a doctor says it as when a warning says it we might not have to have as many doctors ever say it.

Where do you come from

tdomf_ad90e — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:43:45 +0000

where do you come from? i hear that there’s a lot of different types of you, different forms, people find it at different times, and all in all it seems that there is this mystery about who, what, and where you are. I don’t understand how you could be so elusive while we’re dedicating so much to finding out more about you and how to beat you. Are we asking the wrong questions? Are we looking at the wrong areas? Are we sharing our findings enough between all the people working on it? Would Google do it better / different / faster? One thing I do believe (hope at least) is that we have to be making progress everyday – so hopefully it won’t be long. You’ve already ravaged my life in certain ways that I could never forget; but there are many more lives that you’ll never get a hold of – so screw you.

2010 – we’re gonna find out more…. look out!

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