r/cancer • u/TheEvilSatanist • 4d ago
Patient Ivermectin 🙄🙄🙄
I recently went shopping at Kroger with my partner, and I was riding around in one of the little carts.
After we were done shopping, I parked the cart at the charging station and plugged it in, while I waited for my partner to bring the car around.
As I'm sitting there waiting, I put my head down on the "steering wheel" bc I feel like shit.
So this guy who works there sees me and asks if I'm okay. I explain that I have stage 4 metastatic cancer and I feel like shit.
He starts rambling off about Ivermectin and how he's seen some shit on YT and all this other bullshit.
Y'all... I legit couldn't fucking roll my eyes hard enough!
I tried to be polite and just said I'll mention it to my oncologist. He then says "if he won't give it to you, then go to another one!" I said that I have two I am consulting with, and I will ask them both.
I do actually plan on mentioning this to my oncologists, BUT only so I can tell others that I've already mentioned it to my doctors, bc I KNOW it's gonna happen again... and again... AND AGAIN!
How do y'all deal with the crunchy woo tyoes? My Satanist ass doesn't do the whole sugarcoating bullshit nonsense, I don't have the patience for it.
How do y'all deal with ignorant ass people like this?!
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u/funkygrrl Myeloproliferative neoplasm (PV) 4d ago
My husband died of bile duct cancer at the height of Omicron. I joined a huge online widows group where they had people lecture on various grief topics. At the beginning, they'd have everyone briefly check in. There were about 50 widows in the Zoom call and about a quarter of them were COVID widows. I'd expected they'd say, I wish my spouse had had the vaccine or masked up or whatever, but the majority bitched about how they were mad at the doctors for not giving their spouse Ivermectin. I realized then that there's no hope for these people. If the worst outcome happens and you're still thinking that way, nothing's going to persuade you otherwise.