With a reach of about 9 million, YOU and YOUR wonderful tweets about the REALITY of cancer made #CancerRealityCheck a success yesterday!
Of course, it is difficult to read the tweets at times, and even more difficult to compose them–we all know this. But it is even harder to live it, the way we live it everyday. And we know cancer will not be eradicated any time soon. How many more are being diagnosed this minute, as you read this? How many will be shocked at the reality of the experience, will think, “I wish I had known this before”?
From little things, like the constant fatigue many of us (still) deal with, to the big things, like the gut punch of seeing the names of dead friends in a contact list, these are the realities of cancer. These are the things that just never seem to make it into the inspiration stories we see on TV. All we want to do is get a little honesty out there.
And you did that.
Please keep using #CancerRealityCheck when you want to drop a truth bomb out there. And stay tuned for future efforts to get the hashtag trending, for future Twitter storms.
With gratitude,
@abcdiagnosis @bccww @curmudgeo
anotheronewiththecancer 