A fight, against cancer, with the support from all around, and following the doctor’s orders, hopefully, this would be, a battle she won’t lose in, translated…
Two years ago, in June, the heavens gave me an admissions letter that nobody would want to receive, combined with a birthday present too~~”Congrats, on Being Admitted to the Lung Adenocarcinoma Department of the Cancer Colleges”, and overnight, I’d become, a freshman cancer, and, I’d, skipped the grades, to the fourth stage quickly too.
This was, a hard-to-take-in fact! Back then, I was only thirty-four years of age, ready to walk down the aisles, about, to start, this brand new chapter of my life, as I got this notice, I’d started hollering aloud: WHY ME!!!
And yet, as I’d, relayed the news to my parents, they’d not become like the parents on T.V., started panicking, instead, they’d shown that attitude of, “know thy enemy, and fight well!”; my older sister immediately went to the bookstores, returned with several volumes of lung cancer, and worked hard with me, studying how the enemies formed, and the possible treatment measures. And, my friends from high school all showed up in the hospital wards, giving me boosts of surprises, helped celebrate my birthday, and helped me with my spirits. My newly wedded husband also told me, “Thank heavens we’d registered for marriage already!”, which shattered my thought of contemplating filing for a divorce from him.
All those who loved me had, in the shortest time, filled this empty balloon I became back up, with love, and made me spirited, in my war against cancer, and, I’d increased my appetite so that I wouldn’t need the injections of nutrients anymore. Thankfully, my body responded well to the treatments, plus I’d worked hard getting enough food, shortly after the treatments began, I’d slowly recovered, and got out of the hospital successfully.
During these past two years, although I’m still battling cancer, and during the time, the medication I’d taken stopped working, and the results of chemo didn’t prove effective anymore, along with the metastasizing of the cancer cells, but I’d not felt alone, the support and love from my family made me spirited, and having cancer made me learn things too: I’d started paying close attention to the signals my body were sending out to me, and not held back on my expression of love toward my family, although I’m a patient, I still can’t become this, total annoyance to everybody around me! And, getting emotional or being kidnapped by myself, will only damage the love I’d established and started sharing with my loved ones.
This cancer was also like a mirror, it’d reflected, the truest kinds of friendship, made me realized, that love and friendship aren’t built on the materialistic; from before I thought I had a lot of time, and so, I’d, squandered it all away, and now, I’d come to the understanding, that time is to be spent, on the things, the people we loved and cherished, that way, we will have, many memories to share and to recall later on in life.
Cancer is, a gift from God, it’d made me reexperience “love”, and love, is the strength that God gave us, when the heart is filled with love, then, there would be, this magical strength, and so, why should I fear cancer!
So having a strong supportive network of friends, family, and loved ones is especially important during these sorts of trials in one’s life, and having a positive outlook on life is a must-have, in these cases too, because if you keep your attitudes positive, then, you’d won, half of the wars, and you just need to follow the doctor’s orders, get the treatment procedures you need, for the other half…