Cancer in Real Life is Not Like in the Movies

Manic pixie cancer girls drove me insane during cancer treatment

Photo by Tima Miroshnichenko: https://www.pexels.com/photo/a-woman-in-brown-fur-coat-7991435/

As a film lover, one thing which I found disappointingly untrue of my experience of cancer were most film portrayals of the disease. They are, in general, diabolical.

You might not notice it if you’ve never experienced cancer first-hand; it might seem…