something to pray for

[rob10858]

as i write this tonight i have lost all of my family, except for my wife, to cancer. now it's moving in on my father in law. some smoked, some did not, it really doesnt seem to make a difference. my dad spent his life trying to discover a cure for this disease. in the process, he discovered the cause of kidney, bladder, and gall stones that used to be the curse of men. although many men still are afflicted with this painful disease, now, it can be treated. my dad smoked all of his life and died from liver cancer, my mom never smoked and died from lymphomia, my father in law didnt smoke and is dying from lung cancer. cancer has no boundries or constraints . i've had the misfortune to see the long and the short deaths that this sob can cause, and i have come to the conclusion that neither one is acceptable in our world today. no matter how strong the spirit, the body usually sucumbs to the illness. it's time to take care of this disease once and for all. am i the only one that has had this ******* take everything i loved from me? lets donate every spare penny, [and i mean penny] to any cancer research inst in your area. as we have seen in the last few months, we can give an enormous amount of assets to a good cause. i cant think of a better tribute to my loved ones than a cure in our lifetime. i hope none of you ever have to go through what we've been through the last few months, and my eyes have been opened wide. this thing kills, for no reason, just like our opponents in the war. we will defeat them, but we have one more evil to fight. and this one doesnt care about pride, respect, country, it just kills.

 

[Fireman Dave]

Amen, packman. I lost my Dad to cancer, my wife lost her mom to cancer (when she was only 13), and I almost lost her - my wife - to cancer when she was 26. We are fortunate that treatment has come so far since my wife's mother had it in the '70s. Ten - twenty years earlier, and I'd most likely be a widower today. A few years ago, we decided to take the money we would stop buying Christmas gifts for the extended family (you know, usually the stuff nobody wants anyway). Instead, we send a donation to the UW Cancer Center - the place that saved my wife's life. We also ask our extended family to spend that money in a likewise fasion - we don't need more stuff anyway. We find this to be a much more satisfying way to spend our money at this time of the year. Best wishes to your father-in-law.