prayingforccr wrote:[
I can't/don't want to make friends if I'm going to start to die in a short while
It's just the way it is.
aleukhin wrote:.... I want to hear your voice - what to think on this matter? Share your challenging relations with family and friends during treatment? How do your family/friends help you or, maybe, distracted?
I hope you will find this project somehow useful and I would appreciate any suggestions and comments.
Alex
prayingforccr wrote:aleukhin wrote:prayingforccr wrote:[
I can't/don't want to make friends if I'm going to start to die in a short while
It's just the way it is.
Sorry about your situation. I have seen how few of my "cancer colleagues" died for the last few years. Life is int easy. My friend, said, "cancer will win if it takes a way your life; what you do, how you live." So my goal don't let the cancer do it.
Take a look a the short rough-cut interview I film for my documentary.
https://youtu.be/cqlBUbLkY7A
Alex
I have decided that I will end my life at a time of my choosing rather than die from cancer.
I think about it everyday.
Kayla Redig wrote:Remember when being young made you feel like you had the world by the tail and everything was new? Your first love and your first job? Remember how it felt to drive a car for the first time, or to stay up all night with your friends? You felt INVINCIBLE, right? How about the first time you had cancer in your 20s? What did that feel like? Let's ask one of the more than 70,000 young adults between the ages of 15 and 39 (the invincible years) who are diagnosed with cancer each year. Didn't know they existed? Now you do.
prayingforccr wrote:...I can’t/don’t want to make friends if I’m going start to die in a short while
Muskokamike wrote:There were two members whose deaths I recall really hit me hard. Marco was a 30 year old guy from Milan Italy who posted under the handle ‘Nester’.
Marco fought his war for two years. When he realized he was in his final days he simply requested members from all over the world to send him postcards from where they lived. It was Marco’s way of visiting parts of the world he knew he would never live to see. The outpouring was amazing. Members sent postcards from everywhere, as far away as Australia. When Marco got them in the mail he would thank publicly in his posts the members who had sent them.
I regret now not sending Marco a postcard.
I remember openly crying reading Marco’s 'My Last Post’ thread. The last entry being made by his father, informing us all that Marco had passed and once again thanking everyone for the postcards and how much it had meant to his son.
JJH wrote:Readers who are interested in Alex Leukhin's "WITHIN THE FAMILY" film project might also be interested in a 2018 film produced by his co-producer, Kayla Redig. Her hour-and-a-half 2018 film is a documentary entitled "VINCIBLE", focusing on young adult cancer patients.
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Take care, and keep safe!
aleukhin wrote:JJH wrote:I notice that you have logged in regularly in the past week but you haven't posted any new messages.
Take care, and keep safe!
Thank you! It's a hard time - both Ukraine and Russia! Being and Moscow I was helping my family and friends from Ukraine move to Poland and USA. It's a such big tragedy for all people. I feel last days like I was diagnosed with cancer again.
Postpone all project works for one month, hope will be able to continue again soon.
Thank you for your support and pray
Alex
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