re: Cancer

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I hate it with a passion. It took my oldest son from me.

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She made plans for things she wanted to do and tell me before she went but she was gone exactly 1 month later.

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So very sorry to everyone who's lost someone close.

One of my grandfathers and a couple of cousins and aunts & uncles passed away from it. Several other family members have had it and are in remission, and some have lived with it for a while, then passed away from another cause, the same with friends and close family friends.

Presently, I have an uncle who is suffering from melanoma. He has been through several rounds of treatments, some experimental, which seem to be helping, but they are very harsh. It has been a couple of years since he's been diagnosed, but the cancer & treatments have both taken a toll on him. He's rather weak and very underweight, but continues to fight. However, as in many cases, complications have arisen because of his contracting other unrelated illnesses since his immune system is compromised from treatments and the cancer itself. When he got strep throat, then even a very bad cold this past Fall & Winter, he became seriously ill and had to stop treatments until he recovered & was stronger. The flu or pneumonia would be very possibly fatal for him.

It is just a horrible disease that strikes unexpectedly and indiscriminately.