@doublewhammied
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Everything was going great until this whole breast cancer thing.
PERFECT! Me, too!
November 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
PERFECT! Me, too!
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Yes! I completely agree!
November 25, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Yes! I completely agree!
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I’ve told all my friends that if I ever hear them refer to my cancer as a “journey” or a “battle,” that I will haunt them after I’m gone.
November 25, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I’ve told all my friends that if I ever hear them refer to my cancer as a “journey” or a “battle,” that I will haunt them after I’m gone.
Spot on! Perhaps people need to think about how they'd feel if somebody referred to their illness or heart attack or amputation or death of a child as their 'journey'.
November 25, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Spot on! Perhaps people need to think about how they'd feel if somebody referred to their illness or heart attack or amputation or death of a child as their 'journey'.
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Yes agreed. The Journey thing gets me as bad as the fight, battle, warrior crap. I guess just poor choice of words?
Maybe people do not understand and think about the true meaning of what they are saying?
Maybe people do not understand and think about the true meaning of what they are saying?
November 25, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Yes agreed. The Journey thing gets me as bad as the fight, battle, warrior crap. I guess just poor choice of words?
Maybe people do not understand and think about the true meaning of what they are saying?
Maybe people do not understand and think about the true meaning of what they are saying?
" ... every one of 352 reader comments on a 2024 NYT article called 'When Did Everything Become a Journey?' expressed varying degrees of displeasure abt the word’s use, calling it ... 'cringeworthy,' etc." 2/2 #CanSky #MedSky #IDSky
Stop w/the journey crap!
www.statnews.com/2025/11/25/c...
Stop w/the journey crap!
www.statnews.com/2025/11/25/c...
I have long Covid. Don’t call my chronic disease a ‘journey’
A “journey” is something you choose. No one chooses chronic illness.
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November 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM
" ... every one of 352 reader comments on a 2024 NYT article called 'When Did Everything Become a Journey?' expressed varying degrees of displeasure abt the word’s use, calling it ... 'cringeworthy,' etc." 2/2 #CanSky #MedSky #IDSky
Stop w/the journey crap!
www.statnews.com/2025/11/25/c...
Stop w/the journey crap!
www.statnews.com/2025/11/25/c...
" ... a gateway 2 lifesaving care. This is not a risk assessment. It is a judgment system designed as one. And it is a policy choice that suppresses exactly the participation we need." 2/2 #CanSky #lungcancer #screeningsaveslives
www.statnews.com/2025/11/25/l...
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The hidden reason lung cancer screening is not working
The lung cancer screening system “is not a risk assessment. It is a judgment system designed as one,” writes the director of a cancer prevention institute.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:32 PM
" ... a gateway 2 lifesaving care. This is not a risk assessment. It is a judgment system designed as one. And it is a policy choice that suppresses exactly the participation we need." 2/2 #CanSky #lungcancer #screeningsaveslives
www.statnews.com/2025/11/25/l...
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