Friday night, I joined house fellow Jason Hungerford and GRF Shiv to watch the movie “50/50” and to discuss Jason’s experience being a cancer survivor. I think the whole movie was very well done, and, having a mom who was diagnosed with a dangerous form of cancer a few years ago (she’s healthy now 🙂 ) , seemed pretty spot on. Of course, I cannot speak from a survivor’s perspective, but the words “you have cancer” are probably three of the worst. Everything about your life has to change to accommodate for this disease. A lot of things are put into perspective. I really enjoy how the movie also incorporated humor throughout, both so as to lighten the mood and to get the point across that cancer does not mean a person suddenly has no sense of humor, and sometimes that is the only way to get through it. The movie was overall just a great one (I cried like four times) and Jason’s story was very enlightening about what it is like to receive a cancer diagnosis.