Like many of my secondary sisters, I always strive to see the good in people and understand why people make the choices they make. Currently, I am massively disappointed in how the majority of people in the UK is handling the severity of the spreading of Covid-19.... These obscenely selfish choices have seen confirmed cases jump up 1035 to 5018 (20.6%) yesterday in Britain. 'Great' ChoicesIf you continue to carry on as normal... Please just think about your actions for one moment. You have the blood of the vulnerable on your hands... Reality check... Take a stand.
Resources are short. Life prolonging injections like my Herceptin will be prioritised for people whose life it will save and not prolong because the NHS is stretched... We await anxiously by the phone daily for news that our cancer treatment may be taken or delayed, while we hastily and needlessly decline. Our fates prematurely etched.... People with underlying health conditions and old age will be severity assessed when the time comes. Who will get a ventilator during the shortage? It won’t be us. The people being robbed of our last summer and contact with our loved ones. This is our reality... not so farfetched... Personally, I need to isolate for at least 18 weeks and chemo could mean a kiss from my own mother could kill me. The nature of the way viruses spread means effected people can at least triple, and halt everything, literally over-night! And yet... you know what the absolute cruel and sick irony here is? Those who do not take social distancing and isolation seriously are statistically going to be younger people or middle-aged parents. That’s RIGHT! they can fight... If you are one of those who have been partying, swarming in droves and generally ignoring all social distancing and isolation guidelines just because you decide now is the time you don't want to sit in the house. Absolute spite... That person you stood next to in the que at the chip shop, the person you hugged in the smoker's area, the person you brushed passed at the train station, could have carried it. You could have it and give it to three.... Then... guess who gets prioritised for the ventilators and treatments? WE the ‘vulnerable’ have been robbed of? We lose our entire summer locked away to protect ourselves from your hoarding spree... NHS staff are facing the jaws of uncertainty, constantly begging you to listen to reason... they will eventually need to make the difficult choices to save someone like you and let go someone like me... It is disputed whether Mahatma Ghandi said, “A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.” It doesn’t matter, you will be the ones still here to live this ‘greatness’ and remember. |
A ' no holds' page about my life with incurable advanced Breast Cancer, in the hope it will give a realistic, detailed account to other young women going through the unfortunate illness.
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