![]() ![]() If you made it through, you are resilient. You don’t have to “win” every fight in order to celebrate the fact that you’re still standing. But as someone with chronic illness, every day is a new day to go the distance. Yeah, the franchise might go on too long. Even when he comes close to giving up in Creed when faced with his own cancer diagnosis, he digs deep (with the support of Adonis, Apollo’s son) and finds a way to keep walking up those steps.Īnd that is what matters to me. But keeping him alive through Rocky Balboa and now the Creed movies, living a humble life, continuing his day to day struggles, and even surviving the loss of Adrian and Paulie, is a symbol of his endurance. I know that dramatically it would have made for better storytelling to have Rocky die at the end of Rocky V, having received one blow to the head too many. Which is why I am glad that Rocky hasn’t died yet. What’s next, some Russian technology straight out of a James Bond film? Where’s my “Eye of the Tiger” montage, dammit? A tumor blowing up like a balloon? A hospital stay during a pandemic? Possible amputation? A pus explosion straight out of a 1980s horror film? Pick one! It’s just not believable anymore. By Kayla Mosley Published The Rocky movies are incredibly inspiring, as proven by these iconic quotes and sayings that never left our hearts and minds Its been over 40 years since Rocky Balboa made his debut on the big screen. Its about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward how much you can. Too many high stakes and improbable events happening in a short span of time. A great memorable quote from the Rocky Balboa movie on - Rocky. It was like Rocky IV! Too much! Too ridiculous. I spent the following four weeks with my hand in a wound dressing cast and I now have permanent fibrosis and scar tissue that limits my hand’s movements. Which meant another emergency trip to the hospital, followed by an excruciating and disgusting SQUEEZING of the wound, which was then stuffed full of packing gauze. See, my tumor was liquified by the radiation and had turned into an abscess. ![]() Like literally a volcano of stuff came pouring out of it like a scene from Dead Alive or The Fly or David Cronenberg’s wet dreams. And then while in the shower, I accidentally bumped the tumor with my shampoo bottle….and it exploded. My tumor didn’t shrink, but after four days with no fever, they released me and I was allowed to return for radiation as an outpatient. The nurses all wore PPE hazmat suits, I spoke to my boyfriend through the hospital room window because no visitors were allowed, and my doctors were having very frank conversations with me about the possibility of amputation because the tumor was cutting off circulation to my fingers. ![]()
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