To think people with cancer have more than one wish

[TheIncredibleBookEatingManchot]

Sorry, this is Facebook related.

A friend has shared one of those picture message things about how most of us have a thousand wishes- to be richer/ thinner etc, but cancer patients only have one wish, "to kick cancer's butt."

I'm sure that people who have cancer do want to recover, but is that really the only thing that everyone with cancer wants? Surely you can want to get better and want to (for example) be rich and famous at the same time?

Am I unreasonable in thinking that messages like that are just reducing people with cancer to their disease? It seems to be like it's saying people with cancer do not have fully formed personalities with myriad hopes and dreams like everyone else, they're just all about the cancer.

I've never had cancer or any life-threatening disease, so I realise I could be completely unreasonable about this, as I don't know how it feels.

Im not bald yet beccajoh after 10 weeks of chemo.
Not sure why but the nurses keep commenting on it. Its falling out and has been in handfuls for 6 weeks but I dont have to wear a hat or scarf.

Not every-one loses their hair during treatment.

I had chemo for 3 months before it started to thin , then I resembled Gollum so I shaved it off. I actually found it liberating being bald and secretly enjoyed not having bad hair days.

Well, if you're underwater, the first thing you want to do is breath before you focus on something else.

But, if I were a cancer patient I would try and plan for long term for after I got better. That way I had a reason to keep going, or something to look forward to.

I'm so sorry, Biscuits, Considerably, Becca, Itsallabout and Fireside and husband that you're all going through this at the moment.

Thank you all, and Velvet, and others, for sharing your perspectives.

My Dad has just been diagnosed with Prostate Cancer; he said to me last week that he just ''wished it wasn't happening'' particularly as he now faces a prostatectomy (sp?) which can cause incontinence.. also he will hear today if the cancer has spread.
So he is just really fed up and sick of the whole thing, and he hasn't even started treatment yet.