Cancer doesn't deserve your politeness, and it doesn't deserve gentle treatment. When you've got it, you want it gone. You want your life back in all its big, important ways and all its little trivial ways too. You aren't going to let cancer have it. You went from being shocked and sad to this state of rage that's starting to feel permanent but is also starting to feel pretty good. Take that feeling and keep kicking cancer in its lousy, rotten teeth.