my parents were married in 1956. my dad saw my mom through 2 rounds of non-Hodgkins lymphoma, and the removal of 1 kidney due to kidney cancer. he drove her every appointment, took her wig to be styled, held her hand and head when needed. he behaved like a mench. as we all hope we would. maybe people today are…

No most of population does not care, this has been going on for 25 years and still to this day enough is not being done. The main problem is Harper Government and the Parliamentary committee, but when the UN called out Canada about how they treat Native population the majority of people ignored it.

It must be on purpose: "Look how clever and edgy and post-racial we are by being purposefully racist! yuk yuk yuk!!!"

Canada is fucking AWFUL to Natives. I swear, peopel harp on the States for being racist but jesus fucking christ, it's atrocious up here.

"no one really cares" is false. The conservative government in power may not care, but the population does. hence all the demands, from all levels of governement below federal, for a royal inquiry into it. the only people who don't want this are the HarperCons and the RCMP.

As Canadians, they should be especially aware of Canada's atrocious past—and present— relationship with the Aboriginal peoples

I'm not at all surprised by this. I have a few friends who had their dads divorce their moms after a serious illness. I can't even imagine how I'd handle that situation. I had one friend whose dad dumped her mom AT the hospital after a double mastectomy.

I was diagnosed with cancer three months after getting engaged. We had been together since high school, got engaged, and then the week I turned 25, boom. Cancer diagnosis. The kind that comes with radiation, inpatient treatment, and more than two years of constant chemo.

This makes me uncomfortable. I broke my right leg this summer, and my husband had to take care of me for the first few weeks after my surgeries. He was ok at it. But I later found out that he had relapsed into his drug addiction because (as he put it) "the pressure to take care of you". I did ask him what he would…

Oh. Well, five years ago in December, I had a surgical biopsy on my left boob. The live-in boyfriend at the time — and I have to give him some credit here — at least took me to the hospital and stayed with me all day. I had seriously expected him to ditch me and go drinking and then forget to pick me up whenever I was…

I'm fairly certain that if I was ever seriously ill or maimed, my guy would not be able to hack it. It's disheartening, but my gut tells me he'd suck at it and wouldn't cope. #risks

I just imagine the two of you making an endless pile of grilled cheese sandwiches and pots of tea for each other, one after another. While the other hand is in a constant mobius strip of patting the other one's hair.

Actually, I believe it. There's plenty of the men dumping the women, but I've seen plenty of the wives doing the dumping.

It's even more immediate than Karraker thinks. I was ill and dumped my ex because he was a negative presence. I needed him to get away from me so I could heal. And when I say negative presence, what I mean is, not only was he not good at taking care of me, but he was so stressed out by my situation that he was…

Honestly, I have experienced such radical neglect during illness I am *certain* a major illness could sink us altogether! It sounds crazy, but remember people do die of the flu, and I had an awful bout of flu full-force massive fever, puking diarrhea, the works, on Boxing Day, lucky, lucky me. Managing to raise my…

They wouldn't. (As the now motherless daughter, I would know - And sorry about your illness, btw)

As someone whose mother recently got a terrible diagnosis, and who now does nearly all the work plus my job, I'd take all the burden in the world for her to keep being alive and with me (not to the point if she couldn't do anything and just lay there but we're not there). Love is bigger than hardship, your existance…

It could be a measure of sympathy as well. Not that men are not sympathetic, I don't mean that at all, but as someone who has some chronic issues arthritis, fibromyalgia, and stomach issues I know my ex used to get really frustrated with things because he had no concept of what it was like. He didn't have arthritis,…

Well, I agree that statistically this is the case (and I support the idea that this is probably the case because most men are not traditionally socialized to be caregivers, they are therefore less likely to be comfortable in that role). However, I am both a cancer (diagnosed months after we were married with breast…

Good thing the wife and I are both disabled and both female, then! That's a silver lining, right? ;)