Cancer

[Randy]

April is Cancer Control Month -- Have you ever lost anyone special to cancer? What do you remember most about them?

 

[Bryd0]

One of the people I knew from school lost his life to cancer two years ago, and suffered from it for years even when he was in school. Cancer is a really terrible thing

 

[Nebulous]

I lost my mother to cancer. It was extremely agonizing & heartbreaking being with her through it for those 2 years (even more so towards the end) although I didn't let it show externally to much because I needed too be strong for her.

Cancer is a horrible horrible thing & I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

 

[Jazzy]

Have you ever lost anyone special to cancer?

I lost my Dad.

What do you remember most about them?

My dad was my best friend and he taught me everything I know. He was a fighter and he fought to the end. Unfortunately, he lost the fight. The night he passed, he told me: Keep your head up and do not cry for me. Go out there and make me proud. I love you and I will always be with you in your heart and everything you do.

 

[Kasynlie]

I lost my mother to cancer. It was extremely agonizing & heartbreaking being with her through it for those 2 years (even more so towards the end) although I didn't let it show externally to much because I needed too be strong for her.

Cancer is a horrible horrible thing & I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

Pretty much summed up my situation as well. Although mine battled it for almost 6 years.

 

[Raven]

My mum is in her 3rd year of recovery from breast cancer.

 

[Madyy]

Our old school nurse died of cancer. She was amazing...everyone loved her. <3



In the middle of my Sophomore year, my Geometry teacher/the boy's basketball coach was diagnosed with cancer...bone cancer, I think...I remember at the time, everyone was obsessed with reading the Twilight books, so every time we emailed him (which was like...every day), we mentioned the books because he always had to tell us to put them up. One time, the tech class made a video for him from the whole school saying how much we loved him...was like, 30 minutes long...when they video taped our class, we put this whole thing together where we were reading the books and we named the sides of our triangle by characters in the book...was fun. His daughter, Callie, was in that class...after he had to leave the class, she never went to it because she couldn't go without crying...she just stayed in the library and we brought her notes and her work. That was 2 years ago and now he's the middle school principal and teaches math there.



An even bigger story that I love...my best friend has a little cousin named Dusti...she's the exact same age as my cousin - born on the same day of the same month in the same year. A few years ago...2007, I think...that September on a Friday night, I was at a football game and I got a phone call from my best friend saying that Dusti was diagnosed with Leukemia and they were flying her down to Dallas Children's Medical Center. I remember that night - I was watching a football game and I heard that on the phone and I just started crying because Dusti was like a sister to me - I was really close to my best friend's family...they considered me family. Their whole family drove down to Dallas (an hour and a half away from where I live) and stayed the night there...was 22 people, if I remember correctly. She went through chemo...lost all her blonde hair...but she never, ever stopped smiling and laughing. In January of this year, she stopped chemo - they even had a party at the hospital with her doctors that had a cake saying No More Chemo! and in mid-February, she got her medi port out. She's got all her hair back, but not blonde like it was - now it's curly and brown, but she's adorable. She was 4 when she was diagnosed with Leukemia...now she's almost 8 and is cancer free.

This is me & Dusti in September of last year!! http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/59353_489974028905_795003905_6871924_4151808_n.jpg

 

[Raven]

^ Thats great to hear she is cancer free. My grandad died of Leukemia in 2003 I think it was, My cousin also died at the age of 15 from Leukemia. Very sad.

 

[Myzk]

My aunt has cancer and its not sure if shes clean, but I hope the best for her. But I have lost a dear friend to cancer. He did not smoke, drink etc. He was really clean person and one day he was just gone. Cancer is so horrible

I remember him as the funny guy. He always was happy and keeped all of us going if we had bad times. He was here always to us, but now hes gone and that makes me sad at the moment. It has been over 3 years, but still we miss him more than ever.

 

[awpoon]

My great-aunt and my dad's grandmother both died of cancer, but I recently had an aunt, my own grandmother, and a few others who have been surviving and thriving by surgery and whatnot.



I mean, it'd be nice to have a cure for cancer, but there's also the attempt to prevent it in the first place, something we should all try to do (ie. don't eat like shit, exercise, etc).



I've also ran in three Relay For Lifes and two Terry Fox Runs (well, biked one of them).