Occasionally one comes across on the web an item which, at the same time, is both odd and amusing, but, as well, troubling.
Below is such a case. It's a Youtube video, linked below, entitled "The Real Housewives of Chemotherapy." It's a short piece by two young women who are cancer patients. They have made a short video poking fun at some of the aspects of being a cancer patient, and having to live as such.
But while watching this video, and, yes, appreciating their humor, I also found it strangely disturbing, even troubling, and difficult to watch.
It was as if every time they cracked a joke, or poked fun at some aspect of being cancer patients, and young ones at that, there was some dark, ominous shadow always lurking in the background, never far out of mind. That their laughing and giggling about
their medicine bottles, their tests, and their treatments, and all, seemed so jarringly out of place, so shocking and wrong, for ones so young to have to do.
I think I felt that way because these two women were so young, so energetic, so attractive, that it seemed so very much out of place that they should now be having to find humor in the so very distressing situation that they were finding themselves in: living as cancer patients, but so young. Something just seemed to be so very wrong about
it all, that they should have to be so young, and yet having to do this.
Perhaps it's also because, as an experienced PCa patient, a patient of what is largely considered an "old man's disease," I may have become so used to thinking about
cancer in terms of PCa, and generally older people, that I had inadvertently come to forget, or at least appreciate, that some forms of cancer do indeed strike the young, who then become as compelled as I am, as we are, to fight it.
But then we are reminded of this troubling fact when we come across things such as this video.
So why am I even bothering to post this video and discuss it? I guess as a testimony to the
courageous spirit of these two brave young women, who, faced with a world they never wanted, and, again, so young, have managed to reduce its power over them through the use of humor.
A mighty salute to them for the
guts they have shown in doing that, and making this video, in the face of all else they must be dealing with!
So, sorry if this is turning out to be kind of a downer of a thread, but perhaps we can remedy that by watching the video and genuinely appreciating the courage-through-humor that these two admirable young ladies are displaying!
God bless these two young fighters!
(The sound quality of this video could be better, but you'll understand enough to know what's going on):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkyvhsa3jpc