Cancer and Jason and the Scorchers

It's been kind of a cancer-centric week at our house.  Last night after a blegh kind of day Ernie and I set off on a date, to go see the movie 50 50, the Seth Rogen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt movie about being diagnosed with cancer the journey that you are dragged upon.

It was so real.  So fucking real.

I mean, of course the situation of the movie's character and Ernie's couldn't be more different...and yet it was so real--I can't even think of another word other than real.  There were lots of funny moments and we related to that because I think we've always been pretty good at finding the humor no matter how wretched the situation.  I gotta say though....I didn't expect to cry so much.  It just hit home so hard.  We both cried a lot through it.

The only note they got wrong was the doctors.  In all the doctors I have dealt with in the last few years, ranging from surgeons at major teaching hospitals to adult medicine doctors to urologists to neurologists to geriatricians to various oncologists....although their warmth has varied, I've never found one as insensitive as the way the doctor in the movie was portrayed.  That being said....the rest of it was just so....so REAL.

Afterwards we felt exhausted.  I suppose it was a bit cathartic.

For some reason Jason and the Scorchers have always been music I listen to when I'm dealing with cancer.  I don't know why.  But I know the year that Ernie was diagnosed I listened to a ton of Jason...and then again when Judi was diagnosed and was going through her surgery and treatment.  Of course....Jason and the Scorcher's is one of the cds I brought with me to the hospital when I was in labor with Leo.  I believe I brought 3 cds.....a Scorchers, an Ian Hunter and one other I can't recall....  Huh.