This story i think will hit close to home with several people. My dad found out he had a cancerous tumor the size of a softball in his kidney last year. They acidentally found it while looking for gull stones. He never knew he had it and either did the doctors. They luckily found it in time. He lost a kindey because the cancer had consumed the entire thing. After removing the kindey, the dr. told my dad if he had waited a few months more, the tumor would have broke out of the kidney and he wouldn't be around much longer. That was a stressful time for the entire family, especially for my parents. I was on active duty at the time and my sister lived on the other side of the state and couldn't make it out too often because she had used all her days off when she had her baby. Mom was a wreck and dad was consumed in thought about soo much. They removed it and they got all of it out and he didn't deen kemo. It put a lot of things into perspective.
I can relate to some of the things in this story. I remember people coming in to visit my day, bringing flowers and gifts, at all times of the day. You could tell there was times he just wanted to be left alone of just wanted the immediate family only. How could one disease be soo powerful that we cannot find a cure. It has consumed many people, and will do so to many more. This was a very moving passage, it showed the fight that people have. We don't give up to easy. We are a stubborn race. You really have to do something to keep us down. This showed a strong desire to live, and that is how we all should face life. We never know what tomorrow will hold for us.
Very sensitive insights, Scott. Isn't it amazing how we never stop to think about life until some event jolts us to accept our own existence and the fragility of life? Life could be so much better without the pettiness that we bring into it.
Posted by: Neha at May 2, 2005 11:36 AM