Two pals and a cancer patient
They were in the elevator. It was easy to pick out the cancer patient. He had little wisps of baby fine hair. His skin tone was pale and his eyes said “I’m having radiation treatments.”
But they were a happy trio. Three men…two pals and the cancer patient. They were his “lifters.” They kept him laughing and smiling and he loved them for it. It was so apparent, they’d been friends for a very long time. The two pals were there to support their friend.
One asked the cancer patient how he was feeling today. He answered quickly, without hesitation, that he “felt pretty good.” “It’s a good day,” he said. His friend said “that’s because we made sure you took your medicine.” “See, as long as we’re here for you, you will feel good.”
The cancer patient smiled. It was a smile that touched his friends’ hearts. It touched my heart too and I was just an observer!
The doors opened to the radiation oncology floor and out they went; two pals and their cancer patient, ready to face the day. Ready to face his treatment.
Lifting would be the order of today.
October 28, 2012 @ 3:24 am
, we’re talking about an assticaoed risk comparable with the risk assticaoed with smoking and lung cancer. What is remarkable — among many remarkable things — is the abortion proponents’ denial and obsfucation, a song-and-dance much like the one the tobacco industry put on for years re tobacco.Based on what I’ve seen so far, adolescent girls need far more information than they’re given. And if you don’t think the abortion lobby isn’t politically-driven then you haven’t been listening to them. NARAL is simply whacky.Yashmak when you say I guess it all comes down to how much you really care about convincing people who initially disagree with your viewsthen you’ve missed my point. And my repetitions aren’t going to clarify it for you;it becomes apparent that we’re talking past one another. My own bias: for many years, I had no problem with abortion. It wasn’t good, but it was the lesser of two evils. In other words, I bought into the program the feminists were selling and that Engineer Poet repeated here, right down to abortion being less dangerous than pregnancy. I also bought into some of their other material, like no-fault divorce and the quality of time you spend with your kids is what’s important. And then the studies of divorced kids started showing up and the studies of aggressive, impulsive, bullying daycare kids began to be supressed. None of those studies were believed at first, either. In fact, I read a lot of disagreement about the politics behind the studies but when I looked into them it turned out the funders had been looking for and hoping for good outcomes. Didn’t happen…but the MSM didn’t talk about those findings, either. You have to go to the specialty journals written for professionals who have to figure out how to treat these children…it’s an eye-opening experience. I had to read them because I was a social-worker trying to figure out how to reach the unreachable, too.The “abortion-is-freedom” ranks right up there with “daycare-is-quality-care-and-all-children-need-to-benefit-from-socializing.” It’s also of a piece with no-fault divorce. The results are in: no-fault means no child support and very little sight of dad. And so child-support collection has become another business, like daycare and abortion. All market-driven enterprises.These policies, laws, beliefs, all have consequences and most of them have had poor outcomes. We are reaping a sad harvest and leftist-driven beliefs about abortion is the least of it. I could draw up a list for you of all the medical procedures that were performed with great enthusiasm and sold to a gullible public for years before they started tip-toeing from the room and turning out the light. Are you old enough to remember when lobotomies were being sold as a panacea for various ills? Some of those poor victims may yet be alive in some back ward.Just how much do you *know* about breast cancer treatment beyond what you’ve read in the MSM? If you have opinions on the subject, how have you come to form them? Have you read the studies? Been a subject in one? Looked at the protocols? Whose statistics do you follow? In which country? The current “gold standard” treatment for breast cancer in this country leaves much to be desired.But that’s not my point(s).My point is the Leftist-driven politically correct opinions that have sucked up all the air in the room. No dissenting voices are permitted or they will be called names and driven from the room. And for their suffocating belief system a lot of people will suffer because they put these programs in place.My point is that young women need more information than they’re getting. And they need it from a variety of sources, not just the local abortion clinic.Basta. Time to move on.
October 26, 2012 @ 3:14 pm
im a 14 year old who has cancer ino i wonldeut wish it to anyone its so bad you go through so much paiin with your chemotherapy!:'(and ive lost my hair i just chant wiate for it to grown back tbh :/im not going to give up no matter what im going to carry on figting and win!i dont think anyone should get cancer its horrible!sheffild childrens hospital has helped me alot!im im really greatful to that hospital..
October 17, 2012 @ 9:33 am
We all know that we need family and friends to support us. The journey will be difficult and many times we fall down so we need the strength of others to get up once again and continue to walk towards the sunlight and out of the darkness. The snippets of your observations in the cancer center are terrific and confirms that the battle is far from over…..guys in the garage, where are you!!!!!!!
October 17, 2012 @ 8:48 am
I love this little relating of what you saw. We lift each other up, and my goodness it does help. : ) ~Catherine
October 16, 2012 @ 7:43 pm
Makes me smile!
October 26, 2012 @ 6:40 pm
Thinking like that is really ipmrsesive
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