Back to back shocking news from close quarters.
My close friend, who had spent most of the days in hospital attending me, called to let me know his mom passed away. Recurrence of blood cancer ! She has cancer for 16 yrs, it recurred 4 time in 4 yr intervals. The brave lady went through the torture of radiation and chemo each time until she could not take it any longer.
If that was not shocking enough, I got a call from my surgeon, who did my cancer surgery ! And it was to deliver another bad news. One of his other patients, who went through surgery, radiation and chemo along with me had a nasty case of recurrence ! He is of my age, same industry, quite positive person. Same Head and Neck cancer ! While being treated together, we built great bonhomie.
The only difference is, he never abused tobacco. We gave each other good company in keeping us up-beat during the treatment. More so our spouses, who shared a few chit-chats outside the radiation room when we went through the treatment !
A recurrence, when the hope was on the upswing :(
My close friend, who had spent most of the days in hospital attending me, called to let me know his mom passed away. Recurrence of blood cancer ! She has cancer for 16 yrs, it recurred 4 time in 4 yr intervals. The brave lady went through the torture of radiation and chemo each time until she could not take it any longer.
If that was not shocking enough, I got a call from my surgeon, who did my cancer surgery ! And it was to deliver another bad news. One of his other patients, who went through surgery, radiation and chemo along with me had a nasty case of recurrence ! He is of my age, same industry, quite positive person. Same Head and Neck cancer ! While being treated together, we built great bonhomie.
The only difference is, he never abused tobacco. We gave each other good company in keeping us up-beat during the treatment. More so our spouses, who shared a few chit-chats outside the radiation room when we went through the treatment !
A recurrence, when the hope was on the upswing :(
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