It's amazing, how you can go all afternoon not thinking about something that is upsetting and then all of a sudden it hits you. My aunt is the third person in the past three years to be diagnosed with cancer in my family. She has breast cancer. My dad (father) is recovering from prostate cancer surgery. My dad (stepdad) is going strong after surviving colon cancer. Several years ago my grandmother had lung cancer and my grandfather died shortly before I was born of leukemia. My stepgrandmother passed away of pancreatic cancer.
It just doesn't seem fair. We live our lives to the best of our ability and many of us end up with this disease in some shape or form. All we can do is take preventative measures in order to "catch it early" and have "early detection." It's frightening. For women, for men, for everyone involved. So quickly a life can change, so abruptly. I can't even imagine what it's like to hear those words from the doctor. Cancer affects families throughout the world. To be quite honest and blunt, it just plain sucks that as we grow older, generations before us (parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles) also grow older and ultimately end up dealing with things such as cancer just as my generation will also deal with illness in our own bodies someday...as some already have. And we fight. Families help each other fight the cancer. It's a will power thing. If you believe it, it can happen.
So, live life to the fullest. Be kind to people as you never know what they are going through. Tell your family and friends that you love them and that you care about them. And have faith that everything will be okay in the end...otherwise, it's not the end.
1 comment:
Hugs.
I love you,
mom
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