Another E-mail From Anna

Anna wrote back just now, and she said something that I just have to post.

She was praising my blog, and she said, "You are not a competitive complainer."

In other words, she can tell me what's going on with her, and I don't have the need to top her with a worse cancer story about myself.

I'm posting this not because she is praising my blog, but because I love the words she used. I've never heard that expression (I think she invented it), and I love it. She was also referring to support groups, and how this sometimes happens.

We cancer patients don't need to compete with each other. We are all in this leaky lifeboat together.

@ Jeanne Sather 2008.