freaked out floundering fakecancer survivor shormistha mukherjeewrites about the range of reactions she faced when she got her diagnosis excerpts from her book cancer you picked the wrong girlfirst heres a short 101 on how to react when someone tells you they have cancer or more importantly how not to reactoh my god never no i am freaking outnot a good way to react if you are telling me that you are freaking out then i should be exploding with stress like really whats the logic you are not going to go through the treatment or the chemo or have your boob taken out so you have no reason to freak outno it cant be i dont believe thisuh you better unless you are an oncologist who knows more than the one i met i know that you mean that its hard and you dont want this to happen to me but you cant keep repeating i dont believe this because it makes me want to cry and say i cant believe it eitherwhy is this happening to you you are such a good personhonestly this was the most irritating response how the fk do i know why its happening to me and why are you linking some hormonal or cellular not the mobile network obviously glitch in my system to me being good or bad what about kids who get cancer are they good people or bad people and this entire sentence somehow makes me feel like a fraud like if i was really a good person this would never have happened also just so you know mother teresa died of a heart attack there is no rule that says good people die peacefully in their sleep clutching a photo of their favourite dog and a smile playing on their lipsone second now im comparing myself to dead people all because of youbut you are so healthy you do yoga and you cycle and you eat right really you ignorant fool remember lance armstrong had cancer and this man cycled all the time oh you probably wore a livestrong band because you thought it was a fashion accessory and wait a minute what about yuvi that strapping punjab da munda cricketer what connection does yoga or cycling or being fit have with cancer have you been researching medical statistics in your spare time that it surprises you that healthy people can get cancer ugh so bloody stupidno id say none of this to the folks who reacted with these statements and believe me a majority of people reacted with at least one or a variation of thesethis is what i would have liked to tell them but i was in a daze i was going through everything feeling very calm and mother teresalike id tell a person watch their reaction and then in my best bedside manner reassure them that i was fine that it would be okay i would get through it apart from patting their head and