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What's A Guy With Advanced Stage IV Cancer, Recently Laid Off, And Facing Med Expenses To Do

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By Jason Ray Morton Published 8 months ago 4 min read
What's A Guy With Advanced Stage IV Cancer, Recently Laid Off, And Facing Med Expenses To Do
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Sometimes, I want to pull my hair out of my head. Not that I have much left, and it's mostly on the sides of my dome to begin with. It is easy to feel like when you're down, life is going to put on its size 15, steel-toed boots, and kick you where the sun doesn't shine. I'd ask if you've ever felt that way, but an easier question is, have any of you not felt that way?

It's a simple story. Boy meets girl, boy falls in love, boy has family, boy loses family and ends up with a child, boy ends up with a career, career drives boy mad, boy finds a better career, only to find out he has cancer. Nope, there's nothing simple about that. I completely agree, it's a suck ass story, and I lived it.

Now, it's 2025. And there are a few things to talk about. The first thing I'd like to talk about is how they are showing that COVID has contributed to a nasty spike in late-stage cancer diagnoses in the US. I imagine this is going on around the world, but we see more data in the United States.

I don't want to be the guy to wish anything bad on people, because even if I don't like you, I'm just not that guy. People should only get what they have coming to them, if you want my honest opinion. In essence, the crime must fit the punishment.

But when I heard that the FDA was looking at the Vaccines, there was a news report indicating that our leaders knew they were far more dangerous than they ever let on, and cancer had spiked in the wake of the COVID pandemic, I had some ill feelings. By now, we all know, whether we want to believe it or not, something happened at a little laboratory called the Wuhan Lab. Fewer people are disputing this than ever.

The truth is, thanks to the people involved in the COVID pandemic, we may never know what risks the virus puts us in, or what the side effects of the virus vaccines might be. However, because of the pandemic, we have seen studies like the one in JAMA Oncology that estimate thousands of excess cancer deaths could occur in the next decade.

Oncogenesis is being studied, and some research indicates that the virus itself may contribute to the biological process of a healthy cell becoming cancerous due to the chronic inflammation that was common during COVID. As the immune system became unregulated and there was long-term tissue damage, cancer became more likely. Tissue inflammation as a result of the COVID-19 vaccines is now recognized and being reported on.

Why in the world would anybody due such a thing? If it's because of money, how much is enough? If it's because of power, how much is enough? One might only ask those people at the beginning of the story, the globalists of our government, and many others. What was their ultimate goal by doing the research on such a deadly pathogen and then not securing it so it wasn't "Accidentally" released?

If you are one of the tens of thousands of people, people like President Biden, or even an only slightly younger version of me, who are suffering from late-stage cancers that went unnoticed until it was inevitably going to be fatal, you hae every right to be pissed! We should all be screaming at the top of our lungs, demanding that heads roll, and not stopping until we get answers.

Or, is this all a part of big pharma's insidious plans to continue to get rich off the back of the people in this country? PFIZER mass produces a vaccine and sells it to the government, makes record profits, and then produces a pill to combat the effects of cancer. It is called Xtandi and sells for as much as a new car did when I was in my mid-twenties. But if it can keep the healthy cells from being bonded with by cancer cells, anybody with cancer is going to want this miracle drug.

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So what's a guy to do if he has late-stage cancer, is laid off, and requires drugs that, without insurance, are priced into the thousands? That's what happened to me.

I had fought with my insurance and was getting the medicines I needed. I was fighting the cancer, and felt like I was winning. Then, the unthinkable happened.

My company was subcontracting with another company, and the other company lost business. All of us in my home state lost our jobs, and now we're faced with starting over. With the loss of a job comes the loss of insurance.

There's state insurance, or Medicaid. But it's not a quick process by any means of the word. And if you live in a state with a piss poor record of medicaid reimbursements, you're not going to get much from having medicaid.

When you're dying, time is not a plentiful asset. It can become far too frustrating.

What's a guy to do? Well, you keep trying. Don't accept defeat. And look into all your options. That's what you're to do.

At 53, this really sucks!

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Jason Ray Morton

Writing has become more important as I live with cancer. It's a therapy, it's an escape, and it's a way to do something lasting that hopefully leaves an impression.

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  • James Anderson8 months ago

    That's a heavy story you've shared. It's crazy to think about how COVID might be linked to a spike in late-stage cancer diagnoses. I can only imagine how frustrating it must be not knowing all the risks. And the whole thing about the Wuhan Lab is still so murky. Do you think there's any way we'll ever get a clear answer on what really happened? It's scary to think we might never fully understand the long-term effects of this pandemic. I'm also curious about those studies estimating excess cancer deaths in the next decade. How accurate do you think they are? It's a lot to wrap my head around.

  • I feel for you through all of this & understand why you might be pissed about the circumstances surrounding it. I hesitate to remind you of a few things. Any medication comes with risks, no matter how thoroughly they are tested. They introduce poisons into our bodies with the intent of providing greater benefits in the presence of malady than any damage they might cause. That includes the vaccines for COVID-19. Literally the only thing I can find that I believe Trump got right in his first term was giving fast track authorization for a vaccine. He was publicly nothing more than a buffoon as regards everything else on the subject, but he did grant that authority. Under the circumstances, it was fully warranted. It may indeed turn out that some may develop cancer specifically because of the vaccine, but they are dwarfed by the numbers of deaths we would have seen otherwise. Additionally, if you're getting your information from FOX News, RFK, Jr., or the dark web on the effects of vaccines, none of those are reliable sources of information. (If you set out to report the news from a conservative perspective, that's not news, it's propaganda. You can be a conservative who reports on the news like Mike & Nicole Wallace, & it will have an effect on what you consider newsworthy that's important to be aware of, but reporting the news from any given perspective means shaping it to fit your narrative. FOX News discovered after the previous election cycle that can come with a pretty high price tag & they did at that time get rid of some of their worst offenders. But make no mistake about it, they are the Murdoch propaganda network.) Regardless of any of that (ultimately, who cares anyway), you are in my thoughts & prayers.

  • JBaz8 months ago

    You were definitely dealt a shitty hand. I will have to research regarding the vaccine issue and the pharma companies coming out with a pill to fight the cancer. I have no love for the pharma companies, and their selfish ways. How 5he govt allows them to have free reign is a mystery.

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