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Cancer in your life or the lives of your dearest?
Nikita111:
I am 26 years old and year ago my Dad (53) was diagnosed with bladder cancer. It has been year and two months and he went to 5 surgeries and that tumors were coming back. Until now the results were for the first time negative. I hope, I pray even though I am atheist I thank God or some other higher power for this gift. Well, you never know for how long things stays okay so it learnt us to value each moment and not waste precious time with fights, regrets, blames and those stupid things.
But it also learnt me about my own mortality and I became very vulnerable at that time. Being 26 and thinking of death was a certain hell for me but I went through. Well, not unharmed. I still have a fear of death but I hope that one day it will lower a bit.
This illness is so ugly. In my country so many people got ill with cancer. It seems like it is everywhere.
>:(
And the dying of it must be one of the worst.
injest:
Nikita, I am so happy for you that your fathers' tests are negative. that had to be a difficult thing for you to go through.
:)
and what a nice 'gift' here at the holidays. I hope you and your father have many holidays before you.
What country do you live in?
delalluvia:
I'm so sorry for your father's diagnoses. Cancer is not easy to live with. My mother was diagnosed when I was 15 years old. She was in remission for a while, then it came back, back into remission, cancer came back, back into remission, ...it's been a rollercoaster ride my entire life.
Two years ago my sister was diagnosed with the same cancer and of course, now the bullseye is centered on me, since it's now very obvious how hereditary this cancer is in my immediate family.
So far, I'm cancer - free, but I can't count on that lasting.
It changes your life. And if it's bad for you, imagine how it is to actually have the disease. :(
I'm trying to enjoy my life now...before anything happens, you know?
It makes you appreciate what is good in life and makes you very impatient with what is little and petty. Makes you keep things in perspective.
Kelda:
Nikita - welcome. Cancer is a horrible illness. It cuts so many people in their prime - but for those that get through it - it gives many a new lease of life - reminding them that life is short and theyve got to use the tme they have. Perhaps thats the silver lining of the cloud to those who live through cancer.
Nikita111:
--- Quote from: injest on December 12, 2007, 08:27:47 am ---Nikita, I am so happy for you that your fathers' tests are negative. that had to be a difficult thing for you to go through.
:)
and what a nice 'gift' here at the holidays. I hope you and your father have many holidays before you.
What country do you live in?
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I live in the Czech Republic. It is former Czechoslovakia for American folks. ;D
Yeah, I must say he was never sick. he worked the whole time and once in two-three months he had surgery. then they gave him chemotheraphy but only a local one straight to his bladder. It burnt but it probably helped. I hope so. I pray so.
;)
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