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  DATE : 2022.01.05
  TIME : 13:48
AUTHOR : SNOWCRASH@SDF.ORG
  MOOD : DEPRESSED
 TITLE : FUCK 2022!
 
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Well for me and my family at least, 2022 is turning out to be
worse than 2021. My mother in law who is loved by all had a
colonoscopy yesterday and they found a large malignant mass that
they believe to be stage 4 cancer. She is close to 80 years old
and only has 25% kidney function as it is.

I was curious so I googled for the survival rate information. For
colon cancer in general it is 31%. For stage 4, it's 5.1%. And
this is across all age demographics. I imagine that with her
age and other issues that survival rate is lower. Obviously I am
keeping my fingers crossed and keeping a brave face for my wife's
sake but interally I am screaming fuck as loud as I can. Which I
am sure she is doing already I just hope she doesn't google like
I did.

We are not one's to be optimistic, so we will be maximizing our
time with her from the get go. So whether she googles the survival
rates or not, our time with her will already be maximized. Fuck I
hate being a grown up some days, a lot of days actually.

-Snowcrash