She was meant to be sick?

The same thought popped into my head once or twice.

However, I recall the scene where the boyfriend stayed the night and she went into the bathroom to take some pills. I thought they were possibly pain pills since they made the point on the radio show that they wouldn't try to prolong her life.

Also, this seems to have taken place from late summer through to spring of the following year. When she was doing most of her active stuff was at the start of the movie, before the cancer spread to her entire body.

From personal experience, my father died from lung cancer which had spread to his whole body. About a month before he died he was complaining of severe back pain, but he often had back problems and the doctors thought that is what it was. It wasn't until two weeks before he died they realized it was cancer and he went downhill almost immediately. So if he could be up and moving around (granted not running) at his age (70s), I could see someone 50 years younger being able to try to live life to the fullest in the first part of the movie. But again, I would have to say that she must have been on massive amounts of medicine and pain blockers, especially towards the end, which should have (theoretically) made her very tired and weak.

it depends on a lot of things, a lot of cancer patients when they become very ill it's actually more to do with the chemo or radiotherapy than it is the actual cancer. it's also why a lot of people cease treatment, to have that "well" feeling that they get when the side effects from it wear off, especially when they know that treatment will only prolong their life and not cure the cancer.

the cancer takes over your body slowly from the inside until it's everywhere. it's why a lot of people can get to such late stages of cancer without realising anything is seriously wrong with them and then it's too late.

when my grandmother had cancer some years ago, she had some tiredness and weakness that we all attributed to simply old age. about a month before she passed away, she was admitted to hospital where it was revealed that lung cancer had spread to most of her body.

i'm very on the fence as to whether it was an accurate portrayal of someone with leukemia. perhaps it was to some and to others not. she was a stark contrast to kate from my sisters keeper who was very ill throughout that film, but then kate was continuing on with treatments that tessa chose to end.

My father had late stage prostate cancer that spread to other parts of his body. He lived with it for 3 years and while he had regular doctors visits, radiation and tons of meds to take, no one even suspected that he was sick. He was travelling and socializing all the time. It wasn't until the doc suggested that he have chemotherapy. Immediately after chemo he was hospitalized and died 2 months later in the hospital. Chemo was what killed my dad. Had he not gotten chemo he probably would've been living a "normal" life up until the disease itself fully took over and probably would've had to suffer maybe a week or two instead of two months of pain and loneliness in the hospital.