I am Jason Berger’s wife. Please forward this to Amber Blonski. She and I need to have a chat [Letters, February 7].
Amber: Before you decide to attack someone personally, you need to get your facts straight [“Tomb with a View,” January 10]. The leading cause of death is heart disease, then cancer.
How do explain the 14-month old that we know who has cancer? Is that from smoking & eating fast food too?
I would love to see you read your comments to the patients at the Taussig Cancer Center’s waiting room, or better yet… the children and their desperate parents at St. Jude’s.
After all of the heartache we have been through- you have nerve to speak such vicious words. Do you think we should just turn our heads to all of the pollution around us?
For the record, phone calls and complaints were made. Jason and his mother were both healthy until they were diagnosed with cancer. And I’m quite sure you won’t find a single person to say a bad thing about Jason or his mother, or many of the undeserving sick people on Murray and Fosdick.
Where, or should I ask, who, is your loyalty to? Friend of the EPA, perhaps? Nobody deserves this. I would never wish this on anyone. Not even you.
Jennifer Berger
This article appears in Feb 7-13, 2007.
Actually I have my facts straight. First of all, I didn’t say cancer was the leading cause of death. I said that it was ONE of the leading causes of death. I myself am the survivor of cervical cancer. I would never have the gall to blame my disease on anyone or anything just because I feel sorry for myself. Everytime something happens, it happens for a reason. I can’t explain why because I am not God. If you have questions about why you or your family have cancer, maybe you need to pray on it. I didn’t give anyone (including myself) cancer, God did.
As far as I’m concerned, we have nothing to talk about. You mistakenly assume that I wish cancer on people, and for that, I am so sorry that you are still trying to blame others for your misfortunes.
As a further note, I have read my comments to almost all of the people I know through my cancer therapy session. Only 2 or 3 survivors who are dealing with this disease were offended. They were only offended because they are atheists and do not believe that there is a God who does this to people.
No, I don’t want you to “turn your heads to pollution”. I want you to think about what you’re saying next time. As far as me being vicious, that’s exactly what I thought about the article that had no facts to back it up. All it did was slander good people and places. That’s the pot calling the kettle black.
As previously stated, you and your family need to pray to God to find out what really happened before you point the finger at anyone and everyone. I have no association to the EPA; however, I have loyalty to my God, my family, and least of all my job which you haphazardly blamed for your misfortune in life. I wish I could blame everyone when something bad happens to me. Must be nice!
By the way, I’m not really sure why you took my letter so personally. I’m sure your husband is a very nice man, good son etc. My comments were actually directed to the article-not any one person. I really think you need to seek professional help in dealing with your issues with cancer. I too had to get help to stop feeling sorry for myself and playing the blame game. It took up a lot of my time and energy that I could have been using to deal with the fact that I have cancer, and just living life. Once I let go and accepted that it was what it was, I felt a huge weight lift off of me. I’m hoping that this helps you along this treacherous path called remission and recovery. If you need some names and/or organizations to help with dealing with cancer, please send me a note. I am happy to pass along any info that might help you.