Cancer is the biggest asshole I know. And I know a lot of assholes.

The single thing I love the most about blogging is one day you're paying tribute to your mother on her birthday and the next you're vlogging some sort of weird Peep porn you just invented. No two posts are ever alike just as no two days are and whatever is nagging at you on any particular day, well, that's what you write about.

At least, that's how it works in my head. Some thought dances in my head impatiently until I let it loose in a blog post and only then can I rest my weary brain for sleep.

Tonight I'm not feeling particularly funny or cheerful. Instead I feel a heaviness of grief and helplessness as one of our own courageously tells cancer to FUCK OFF so she can keep her husband. The husband who has been told he may only have a few weeks to live.

If there were ever a woman who could single-handledly make cancer scream "MERCY!" and slither away, it would be her. From the very get-go of this unwelcome adventure she has been staring cancer straight in the face and telling it to go screw itself. 

My kind of gal.

I don't know that I've ever met someone so strong and scrappy and brave. When the doctors tell them it's not good news she replies with:

I could only hope to be half as brave, half as strong, half as ballsy in the face of such shit. Absolute shit.

If you could, please take just a few seconds - perhaps a minute or two - to send some love their way by clicking here and leaving a comment to let them know we're all thinking of them, standing behind them, echoing the sediment made so famous by califmom herself #fuckcancer! There may not be much that we can do to help, but just hearing "we're thinking of you" or "I'm praying for you" or "fuck cancer" goes a long way.

Because this is what we do - this huge community of writers, parents, women, men, students and perfect strangers - stand by each other when things get tough.

I take that back. The single thing I love most about blogging is how it has renewed my faith in humanity.

Comments

[Miss Grace]

Yeah. #fuckcancer. Hard.

[Jess]

Ugh, I've been devastated today reading the latest revelation in her husband's battle. Fuck Cancer!

[Shnerfle]

Babe, you couldn't be more right about this. Fuck. Cancer.

[QBalls]

Cancer blows.

[califmom]

I <3 U. This is why the New York Times can kiss my ass.

[Jason]

You said it.

[edenland]

Megan, I just found your blog via BlogHer. And I leeerve it.

Then I read *this* post and love it more. My husband is in remission from cancer .... internet angels rallied around me when he got diagnosed. I'm off to give my support to Califmom right now.

And I'm adding you to my reader :)

[emlsmom]

I just found this post, and went to califmom's blog, knowing that it wasn't going to be pretty. And it wasn't, but it was beautiful too. I cried, and now am going home to hug my husband (and kids) and tell them I love them.