I guess you could say that I've had a pretty good assortment on the different types of cancer in my family. Lets see, besides breast cancer, we've had leukemia, bone, ovarian and lung cancers...x's 3 on the latter type. Right now I have a 54 yr. old cousin battling this dreaded and ugly beast termed SCLC or as it's commonly called... small cell lung cancer. I lost my mother as well as her mom to lung cancer.
Now, being that I am a cancer survivor, I remember the feelings that some may go through when diagnosed as well as the truly crappy feeling that over comes you while going through the malady of treatments. I can also be very empathetic, but one thing I can't understand is the feeling you have when you're told by your doctors that in order to even try to get an extended lease on life, you need to travel 1,000 miles from your home and go to the Mayo Clinic in Arizona.
That is exactly where my cousin and his wife are traveling to today.
They're traveling in hopes that the doctors at the Mayo Clinic will have better options, treatments and maybe give to him just a little more time. A little more time to spend with his grandchildren and hold his newest grandson. A little more time to spend with his wife, now that the kids are all grown up and gone.
But there's one thing my cousin is. He's a realist. He knows how sick he is. He knows that this maybe a long shot. But he knows he must try. Because everyday researchers and scientists are discovering new drugs so that people with that dreaded beast can maybe have an extended lease on life.
Just like the one I was given....
To my cousin....you are in my thoughts, my prayers, and in my heart...
I love you cuz....
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