I am very uspet and just want to type things out and vent a little. I found out tonight that my uncle (dad's brother) passed away from his lung and bone cancer today. It was just a few months ago that we even found out that he was sick. He was just out at our house in September, and at our wedding a month before that, and seemed to be just fine. I am so mad; he was only in his mid 50s; almost the same age as my dad (younger actually.) He led a very rough life full of drinking and drugs.. still there are those who do, that live to be 100..
Cancer.. I can't stand it. It would take me forever to name the people I know and love that have either succombed to, are succombing to, or fought it yet fear its return. It saddens me to the bone to see a friend of mine, still at work, going through weekly chemo sessions that have robbed her of her hair and now even her fingernails. And my other friend at work underwent a hysterectomy due to uterine tumors. Yet my other friend underwent radiation therapy for breast cancer. On my team alone; that's three out of 6 of us that had/have it.
This post I guess is more of a vent against cancer, and a place to vent if you want to. It just angers me that, in this age of astounding technology, cancer is not curable really. It could crop up even after someone goes into remission.. man am I upset now.