Lymphoma Quotes

“Why does chemo always have side effects like sickness and hair loss?
Why not 'invisibility' or 'spontaneous orgasms'?”
― Lawrence Wray

“Sherri Solvig had had cancer, lymphatic cancer, but due to valiant efforts by her doctors she had gone into remission. However, encoded in the memory-tapes of her brain was the datum that patients with lymphoma who go into remission usually eventually lose their remission. They aren’t cured; the ailment has somehow mysteriously passed from a palpable state into a sort of metaphysical state, a limbo. It is there but it is not there. So despite her current good health, Sherri (her mind told her) contained a ticking clock, and when the clock chimed she would die. Nothing could be done about it, except the frantic promotion of a second remission. But even if a second remission were obtained, that remission, too, by the same logic, the same inexorable process, would end.
Time had Sherri in its absolute power. Time contained one outcome for her: terminal cancer. This is how her mind had factored the situation out; it had come to this conclusion, and no matter how good she felt or what she had going for her in her life, this fact remained a constant. A cancer patient in remission, then, represents a stepped-up case of the status of all humans; eventually you are going to die.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

“Don't delegate your survival to the doctors and hope for the best.
You have to participate in your own cure.
You have to fight.”
― Lawrence Wray

“If cancer was a mugger you would at least throw a punch.
What's different?”
― Lawrence Wray

“If you have cancer, The Cancer Survivors Club is looking for new members.
We're waiting for you.”
― Lawrence Wray

“Cancer is a fight to the death.
Either you kill it, or it will kill you.
Get ready to brawl.”
― Lawrence Wray

“We all have two lives.
The second one starts when we realise we only have one.”
― Lawrence Wray

“You have to fight, because if you don't, you let the opponent win, and if your opponent is cancer, the results can be deadly.”
― Lawrence Wray

“Did you notice the smile on a cancer patient's face after the last treatment?
That's the smile you want on your face.”
― Lawrence Wray