{"id":1646,"date":"2013-10-18T21:43:11","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T10:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ddixondotme.wordpress.com\/?p=1646"},"modified":"2013-10-18T21:43:11","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T10:43:11","slug":"david-2-vs-cancer-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dixon.one\/?p=1646","title":{"rendered":"David 2 vs Cancer 0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ddixondotme.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/10\/20131018-214339.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ddixondotme.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/10\/20131018-214339.jpg\" alt=\"20131018-214339.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-full\" \/><\/a>In broad terms and given the opportunity to quote a clich\u00e9 at this point, I will, &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>&#8230; &#8220;eliminate the negative, accentuate the positive&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, everything sounds easy after you win the fight, and I even think it comes across cocky having to expound a few words of wisdom, as if I knew all along I was going to be alive today. Truth be known, I cried, I suffered depression, I drank like a fish to escape reality, couldn&#8217;t sleep, marriage breakdown &#8230; wow, all sounds like I&#8217;m a candidate for a 10 minute segment on &#8217;60 minutes&#8217;. Mr. 60 Minute producer, leave a message and we&#8217;ll negotiate my appearance fee and I&#8217;ll confirm my availability.<\/p>\n<p>One &#8216;negative&#8217; aspect in my life I had to eliminate, that now sounds obvious but it didn&#8217;t at the time, was that it was necessary to distance myself from negative people. I had to be ruthless and draw an uncompromising line containing the names of friends, colleagues, associates, family, wannabe&#8217;s, noobs and aliens.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest mistake I made on reflection was that I allowed my emotions to influence that decision, &#8230; to the extent that I trusted one individual who habitually and frequently announced to almost everyone we met that I was going to die anyway. I was made to believe that death was inevitable and that I should not cause myself such anguish by thinking that I could be cured.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, long story made short, define who the positive influences in your life are because you will want to talk non-stop sometimes. You will want to rant, you will want to vent your anger &#8230; and only a good friend with invisible ear muffs and caring facial twitches will suck out those attacks, and not think of you as a looney tune, and that same true friend would shake that session off and encourage the next round. I call them, my best friends &#8230;. every single one of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In broad terms and given the opportunity to quote a clich\u00e9 at this point, I will, &#8230; &#8230; &#8220;eliminate the negative, accentuate the positive&#8221; &#8230; Yeah, everything sounds easy after you win the fight, and I even think it comes across cocky having to expound a few words of wisdom, as if I knew all&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-to-cancer-and-back"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dixon.one\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dixon.one\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dixon.one\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dixon.one\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dixon.one\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dixon.one\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dixon.one\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dixon.one\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dixon.one\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}