There we were this afternoon, six of us, sitting at a beautiful round table of glass. Bright yellow daffodils were the center piece for the perfect Spring day.
It seems natural for grown-ups, when they get together, to talk about health and health issues. I’m not sure if that’s because by this time in life, we’ve all experienced something that has impacted our well-being, or if it’s just a common topic everyone has an opinion about and they’re willing to share it.
Call it coincidence, call it life, but many of us had experienced the loss of a friend or relative recently.
The cause…cancer.
That led one in the group to say what we’ve said here many times, “Do you know anyone who hasn’t been touched by cancer?”
The question stayed in my head as I took my daily walk this afternoon and as I passed the houses and thought about the families who live in them, I could count five homes out of the first dozen who had been changed because of cancer. It made me wonder, as I turned the corner and entered a neighborhood of strangers, just how many people in these houses live in cancer world too?
So, the answer to my friends question, “Do you know anyone who hasn’t been touched by cancer”
NO, I don’t.
March 20, 2012 @ 2:03 pm
Cancer keeps touching my life over and over. A co-worker’s dad died last week and his mother is what he terms “a mess.” That word covers it well. Al, I will be praying for your list and their families who must be experiencing so much pain over the illness of a child.
March 19, 2012 @ 7:00 pm
It just seems to be everywhere and no family is exempt. Sadly, some little ones that I follow via their Moms have had their leukemia return in spite of bone marrow transplants. Where do they turn now..another transplant from someone else unrelated, sisters have provided the original bone marrow or chemo or what…just what!!!! Their little bodies can only endure so much and for some, so young, that they don’t even have a grasp of what is happening to them. So many parents and friends are praying for the little ones…will it be enough. Leukemia…naively I thought that this was one of the cancers that could be cured or at least controlled. The little ones like Jackson, Danielle, Elena, Lindsey, Ketren, Braydeon, Nathan and Piper are fighting as hard as they can. I pray that it will be enough. Raise their names in your prayers tonight, please. Thank you.