LIFE IS SHORT
I know someone close who has been diagnosed with the dreaded C word and you are just never ready for it. Having a rug pulled out from under you putting limitations of dreams and any thoughts of the future on permanent hold.
What can you do in those moments as there is nothing you can really say to improve things. Words are meaningless ,no matter how sincere they are. I can't imagine what goes through your head at that moment from hope to despair.
Obviously there is always hope but when specialists put time limits on what you have left then that would be numbing. You would have so many questions as to why it was you. Something tells me I would probably rather not know. Being prepared in this aspect may actually be better than not for your loved ones .but it is a tough one to deal with.
Everything in life would change as you would have to set new priorities that wouldn't have been thought of before. Things that were important suddenly fall away as insignificant. One day you are fine and the next you are counting the days. The strange thing is that this person is a non smoker and always told others to give up for fear of catching cancer.
I am a little shell shocked as I feel for that person and sometimes life is just not fair. We just have to deal with the cards that we are dealt with and hope for miracles. It is amazing that we haven't found a cure yet for certain diseases and who knows if we ever will.
It has woken me up a bit and will try and do a little more each day as life is precious and we should cherish every moment we can.
It is a crappy diagnosis and you are right, there isn't much you can do except be there and listen when they need you to listen. For me the waiting was the hardest part. Waiting for tests, waiting for test results, waiting for the appointments. It makes you get in your head a lot. Unfortunately it sounds like the person you know is past all of that, but now they have an even worse waiting game ahead of them. Good attitude about cherishing the moments you have.
Sorry to hear that, wishing the person the very best. No one indeed knows when our time will end, we just have to make the best of it while it lasts
I will keep you and your friend in my prayers. I have indirectly met people who have been through it and I can't even begin to imagine what it is like to deal with. And in a way, it scares me, especially because I lack a real capacity for empathy... I don't know what would happen if that happened to me.
God speed on a recovery for your freind.
It truly does make you more aware of your days.
My brother was a year and a half older than me. His life was going along nicely. He spent a normal day on an out of town weekend with his wife. They went to bed on Sunday night and a few hours later he woke up with very bad pain.
It never stopped from there.
Of course there were the normal tests and then scans and as someone said previously, the wait.... wait..... wait between every little next thing that seemed amazingly long. When it was finally, firmly diagnosed as the dreaded C.... it turned out to be an extremely rare kind that had no known successful treatment. It was stage 4 when it showed up, but he didin't tell us that one little part. Nine months later he was gone.
He loved life and lived it well. We were very close and that is what I took away from it, that instead of letting it drag me down, as much as the grief seemed unbearable at times, that I should make sure I enjoyed every day all the more, to get out of it all that I could for whatever days I am given. We should never take a single day for granted.
I am sorry to hear about your brother and how fast things change. The one thing you are right and that is to do everything you can every day and not waste anything.
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I'm really sorry. Unfortunately I know what you mean. I've been through this. The best you can do is give him the best you can and spend as much time with him as we can!
sir cryptoandcoffee! words of wisdom for sure, be thankful for every moment. I believe in the near future mankind will have cures for almost every disease, that's how fast they are making progress. I'd say in 20 years they'll have cures for dang near everything.
But in the meantime...life is rarely fair.