Therealmc & cancer survivors- WDYT of The Big C?

[TrudyCampbell]

@therealmc I saw on facebook that you watch The Big C. I love this show. As a cancer survivor, do you think it's a well done show?

sno&2peas

[sno&2peas]

I don't watch it so I don't have any opinion on it. I sometimes have issues watching stuff like this because they never get it completely right. Also, sometimes I just need to step away because it was such a big part of my life that it stresses me out (even though I work for one of the top cancer hospitals. I don't interact with patients a lot anymore. I think I'm overloaded. It's also 10 years cured as of October for me).

[TrudyCampbell]

@therealmc stop ignoring me!!

[TrudyCampbell]

Oh, good, I'm glad you like it! I really love it and it seems well done to me but hey, what the hell do I know.

I'm going to cry just thinking about next week's episode . (SPOILER ALERT) when the son had kept the scarf in his drawer I sobbed and sobbed.

[sno&2peas]

May 16, 2013 17:40:23 GMT -5 @therealmc said:

May 16, 2013 10:00:22 GMT -5 sno&2peas said:

I don't watch it so I don't have any opinion on it. I sometimes have issues watching stuff like this because they never get it completely right. Also, sometimes I just need to step away because it was such a big part of my life that it stresses me out (even though I work for one of the top cancer hospitals. I don't interact with patients a lot anymore. I think I'm overloaded. It's also 10 years cured as of October for me).

I totally get not being able to be around cancer stuff.  In my brief career at Sloan Kettering I saw way too many cancer patients and most of them children.  I think I cried in the bathroom at least 2-3 times a day.  It was incredibly stressful and my anxiety was through the roof.  Even though I work with cancer patients now, all I see are their names and their cells - I don't have to see their faces so I usually pretend they don't have one. Sometimes I do catch a date of birth (I try to ignore these as much as possible) and when it is a kid, it stays with me for days.  


I've been with Dana Farber for over five year and I do still see patients but now I work mostly at BWH even though I'm still employed by Dana. About 2 months ago, I had a mom (who donated) test positive for HIV (she didn't know). I just sat and cried for her (I spoke with her for a long time completing her med history) so when I was entering her questionnaire I saw the unit was dispo'd (our medical director would have to inform her). I also have issues seeing kids with cancer now more that I have my own... I have always been supportive to others going through their fight sometimes I just need to break away from it all though!