"Occupy"

I just have to post this fantastic and hilarious letter written to me (well, my body) from my New Yorker, now San Franciscan, life-affirming friend Jeffrey. It's moving and funny and mirrors the OCCUPY movement in that it calls for a peaceful world revolution.  (Not to be negative at all, but I do think a stem-cell transplant is an easier task...)

Occupy Dina's Bones:  An open letter from the blood-forming cells of Doner #2

We represent our brethren who once happily inhabited your bones and swam through your veins and arteries -- We are the 99%, the dispossessed, the long-suppressed, the ones who got you to where you were for 40+ years and were then ostracized and marginalized by the 1%. We say today: “Enough with the 1%, the blasts that are Malformed and Abnormal, who now get 99% of the attention! Enough with the 1%, the abnormal platelets who think they can grow at whatever speed they want, crowding us out from our rightful place in your lovely body”

We are here to say that we're coming back to stay.  This is OUR time now – and we want our fair share of representation.

With the 1% causing all the tsuris recently, our complaints have gone unnoticed. All we've been hearing about for this past couple of years has been stuff about low white and red blood cells, low platelets, and high number of leukemia cells ... well, WE’VE HAD ENOUGH !!!  From now on, we’re going to make you listen to OUR complains, and our tsuris:  you’ll go back to worrying about bad-hair days,  Ari spilling paint on his pants at school, Isaac demanding yet another car or train for his collection, and Andy mumbling something like “what’s this 99% about anyway” …

So we're moving in ... Infiltrating … putting up our Tents in the inner depths of your Bones, from where we will send forth our mighty T-cells to fight the noble fight. Sure, some of us have long hair, we’re sometimes messy and uncomfortable, but we don’t carry CMV, despite what the media has been saying about us.  And you’re going to Love us once you get used to us.

We say to the 1% - “Get ready, … and be Scared” … because we come in much greater strength than our brothers and sisters in theChemo Struggle who staged the earlier round of Occupy Dinas’ Bones.   That was NOTHING compared to what we are capable of --- We have the power and the Conviction to eradicate the 1% PERMANENTLY …..