Three Horrific Words
My experiences in life, and there have been many. Not always good, and not always bad, but the most horrific words I ever heard were “You have Cancer”. Since Lung Cancers usually kill, I thought I was done for.
One Doctor gave me less than two years to live. However, that Doctor didn’t operate on me to remove the upper part of my right lung or as referred to in Medical terms the upper right lobe. Today, five years and change later, I am Cancer free, considered cured. I thought for sure I was a dead man, now I know that there is hope, and I hope in some way you the reader gains something from reading this short article, and somehow it helps you or someone you know. I do feel one thing for sure. God was with me through this entire journey and it’s because of him that I am still alive.
There are lots of ways to describe different things in our lives, but I think that for a lot of people, me included the 3 most horrific words I’ve ever heard are. You have Cancer.
Unless you’ve had the experience of being told you have Cancer you can never know the feelings and thoughts that race through your mind in a matter of seconds.
Such thoughts might be. Will I live through this? What will I tell my children? What will I tell my husband, father, mother, and relatives? Will they support me through this very difficult time, or just ignore me? What kind of treatments am I going to have? Will I be sick, as I have read about others? How long do I have left in my life?
We all have a very unhealthy commonality. We think it can never happen to us, but we couldn’t be further from the truth. Cancer strikes and kills more and more people each and every year. Some Cancers can be cured, some can’t because either they have gone too far in the body, or they are in a place that can’t be operated on. Sometimes Radiation or Chemo Therapy, helps and sometimes they don’t.
According to the Surgeon who removed my Cancer, which was of the Lung, more and more younger women are getting Lung Cancers, and most of them don’t live beyond two years. Even if an operation is possible, as was my case, I had the upper right lobe of my right lung removed. There is still an 80% chance you won’t live beyond two years. Those are pretty high odds against living a longer life. Some people, and I am one of them, do manage to get past that 2 year period, but we still have a full three years to be considered cured.
On February 22, 2009 I was pronounced cured, and I can’t start to tell you how good that felt, but as mentioned above, many people don’t get the chance that I got in getting past those first two years.
When I was told I had Cancer I think those three words were the most horrific words I’d ever heard. If you know someone who has Cancer do be there for them. Give as much of yourself as you can. Anything at all, that will encourage these people to fight to live, rather than to give up and die.
Remember no matter where we live, no matter how much money we have, many of us are acceptable to having Cancer in various parts of our bodies. A good suggestion might be if you are sick on a continual basis, especially either bleeding from the anus or coughing up blood, get to a doctor as fast as you can. The life you may be saving, could be yours.
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