Feb 14 2009
Women, Don’t Judge Jade… Learn From Her!
I picked up a newspaper at my local store today to see Jade Goody plastered all over the front because the doctors have officially told her that she has only months to live because they cannot stop the cervical cancer spreading. I’ve written about Jade before because she has chosen to make a documentary following her treatment and chemo so we can all see the brutal truth behind cervical cancer. Well, today I felt like crying for her.
Any time I read a story like hers, of a mother with young children that has no choice but to leave them via illness, I feel immense sorrow because I have a very close relationship with my mum. As I have said before, if fate had a different plan in mind, I could have lost her to breast cancer when I was 9 years old. Although I can’t fully feel her pain because I haven’t been through anything similar myself, my heart does go out to her but then I got angry… thanks to the ignorant woman behind me!
This lady had to be 50 years old at least and was loudly dismissing Jade of just being out “for what she can get”. She was denouncing the fact that she is in the newspapers as disgusting and in poor taste. I don’t agree with her one bit. In fact, I think living out an illness like that in the public eye is one of the most selfless acts I have ever witnessed for two reasons.
My mum told me how difficult it was to live with breast cancer in the village I grew up in. She knows what it’s like to have people cross the road to avoid you or ask all sorts of personal questions so they can gossip about you behind your back. Jade Goody is doing that in public, reading people commenting about her and speculating on how long she has left despite being scared to death of not only dying but leaving her boys behind to live their lives without her. She isn’t doing it to preserve her public profile or in a cheap publicity stunt but instead because she wants to earn as much money as she can for her sons and also to raise awareness for other women.
That is selfless because no matter how much she cares about the way people are judging her, and she most definitely does, she cares more about leaving a legacy for her children and helping to raise awareness about cervical cancer, one of the biggest killers of women out there. The lady condemning Jade Goody had probably never lost anyone to breast or cervical cancer or experienced it herself. My mum has experienced it and fully supports any form of raising awareness and I do too.
Please don’t judge Jade Goody… support her and do your bit to raise awareness of cervical cancer. I have written an article on Associated Content about the signs and symptoms of cervical cancer. If you are interested in finding out about them then please use the link on the About page of this blog to take a look at it. It is important that all women find out about it so they are aware of the signs and just how important it is to get checked. Help Jade save one life… even if it sadly cannot be her own.
