It's so sad to hear about someone so young being lost to cancer. Yet, it is becoming more and more commone everyday
My prayers are with his family.
I guess when I first read this article I was kind of shocked, but as I began to read on things started to sink in.
<insert confession>
I guess the reason that this hit me so close is because a few short weeks ago I was diagnosed with lung cancer (as everyone wonders what will happen to this guy next). It has certainly been a very rough year and just when I think I'm in the clear, it all comes crashing right back down. But to be honest I've tried not to think about it all the time and that has helped somewhat. I feel I've actually been pretty cheery and upbeat about things lately. Yet, as I write this I am thinking about it more and more because almost nobody knows about it, I don't know how to tell people, if I should tell people, what do I say? I just don't want to think about it.
Maybe there is a reason things happen to people? Maybe there is a reason I keep getting dealt the losing hand?
I just haven't thought about it much because I am trying to focus on the present and I'm trying to focus on those people that I trust and love. I want to be able to do everything I can with my time, and when school starts, I will still go, I will still be very active in my fraternity, and I will start volunteering at the campus hospital, helping young children that have cancer (since we are w/o a Dance Marathon and such).
What do I do? Who knows...I don't know much about it and I havent' really considered my options, whatever they might be...
Will I do chemo, more than likely no, I've seen what it does and I don't know if I could go through something like that. Maybe I'm just at that point of accepting the things that keep happening to me because they are part of some bigger "plan."
Sorry for the emotional rant,
I'll pray for Mike and his family, friends and fraternity brothers.
Blaine