9.14.05
Cancer is an evil beast
Early this morning, one of my best friend's mom died of cancer. Cancer...you hear that word so often, yet the experience of it is something so indescribable, so unnatural...
From an outside perspective, we all knew she was dying. Yet, when I spoke to him this morning he was almost in shock that it had beaten her. He blamed her sooner than expected death as her "giving up" the fight against it, choosing not to undergo treatments. That's when it hit me how "different" of an illness cancer is and what it does to people.
Cancer is totally deceptive.
Everything in exsistance seems to lead to cancer development, but nothing (so far) can cure it. When someone develops cancer, they are given an initial battery of tests and treatments which causes it to go into some sort of remission. This is the deception...that it was somehow beaten. Anytime in the future when it rears its ugly head, patients and family members think it can be beaten again. From there, that deceptive hope deepens until reality is obscured.
Cancer is a killer and its deception is the agony it brings.
Last February my father died of cancer, age 56. His wife was deceived. I wasn't.
About a year prior, my wife's aunt died of cancer. Her siblings and friends were deceived. I was too.
Around 5 years ago, my father's mother died of cancer. She deceived me by not telling me until it was terminal. That was my first experience with it.
Cancer is an evil beast.
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