This week has been such a tough week for me. My cousin Nathan, who is only 24, has been battling cancer for about a year, and this week he is in the hospital battling for his life. He began on Monday with a long surgery where the doctors removed two tumors from his thigh/pelvic area. The doctors successfully removed those tumors, but as they explored upwards, they found tumors throughout his abdomen.
Nathan has a rare type of cancer called clear-cell sarcoma. It is very aggressive and has begun spreading through his lymphatic system. The doctors are stunned by its aggressiveness and its lack of response to chemotherapy. Treatments options seem to vary from doctor to doctor which is really frustrating to my family and me. Why is it that doctors always have differing opinions? Oh well. All I can do is pray that something works.
I went and saw Nathan today in the hospital in Indianapolis. He looks so thin and pale, almost like a skeleton, but he’s hanging in there. His story is very tragic because he was in the Navy and was training to be a Navy Seal. He had been at the top of his game, taking out submarines, and being as physically and mentally fit as ever before. Then this happens and the only question to ask is why. The answer, I will never know. All I want is for him to get better and be healed.
Everyone knows how bad cancer is, but it never really hits you until you are directly affected by it in some way. In this case, I see its destructive power and how it literally sucks the life out of its victims. The scary thing today is that you never know who it will hit. All ages are susceptible and, as in this case, it doesn’t seem to matter what type of diet a person has, healthful or not.
Cancer is a group of cells that are grow and divide without respect to normal growth limits, invade and destroy nearby tissues, and spread to other locations in the body. Almost all cancers are cause by mutations of genetic material in the body and in the US cancer is responsible for 25% of all deaths. Scary huh?
Nathan has a rare type of cancer called clear-cell sarcoma. It is very aggressive and has begun spreading through his lymphatic system. The doctors are stunned by its aggressiveness and its lack of response to chemotherapy. Treatments options seem to vary from doctor to doctor which is really frustrating to my family and me. Why is it that doctors always have differing opinions? Oh well. All I can do is pray that something works.
I went and saw Nathan today in the hospital in Indianapolis. He looks so thin and pale, almost like a skeleton, but he’s hanging in there. His story is very tragic because he was in the Navy and was training to be a Navy Seal. He had been at the top of his game, taking out submarines, and being as physically and mentally fit as ever before. Then this happens and the only question to ask is why. The answer, I will never know. All I want is for him to get better and be healed.
Everyone knows how bad cancer is, but it never really hits you until you are directly affected by it in some way. In this case, I see its destructive power and how it literally sucks the life out of its victims. The scary thing today is that you never know who it will hit. All ages are susceptible and, as in this case, it doesn’t seem to matter what type of diet a person has, healthful or not.
Cancer is a group of cells that are grow and divide without respect to normal growth limits, invade and destroy nearby tissues, and spread to other locations in the body. Almost all cancers are cause by mutations of genetic material in the body and in the US cancer is responsible for 25% of all deaths. Scary huh?
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