Lucky or Not?
There is nothing new to this situation of
mine, so many of us if not all have been touched by Cancer or some other
illness that takes our loved ones early. An illness a disease as horrific as it
is most of the times gives some time for us to prepare our hearts and minds for
what may come. My particular situation
is a long term thing, with care, luck and the support, not limited just to
family and friends but caring health professionals my disease will be treated as
a chronic one. This is going to give me time, hopefully a long time. This gives
me a unique perspective of observation and reflection, often this leads to a
positive change, letting go of the nonsense and living in the positive. So is
this “luck”? Can’t be considered lucky to have Stage 4 liver Cancer, for sure
it was lucky to be caught early. Extremely lucky that my Aunt Susan stopped on
a TV station that I never would have and found my Oncologist. Even luckier he
happened to be talking about liver Cancer at that exact moment. Some may call
that divine intervention, others may call it fate me all of the above and
lucky.
Now when it
comes time to feel bad for myself it only takes a moment for me to snap out of
it, you see how many times in our lives was luck not even a factor. Just yesterday
it was told to me that a healthy and happy man was on his way to work, he was
the victim of another driver’s mistake. This mistake took his life leaving behind
all of his loved ones. His family had no time to prepare their hearts and minds
for this; he was just ripped away in a moment by a tragic mistake. I have many
stories like this, so how dare I have a pity party for myself when this can
happen, to any of us including me or you. Death comes for us all, for me it may
or may not come sooner than it should. For sure being able to understand
mortality is an advantage over the suddenness of a tragic accident.
So luck is
clearly about perspective, any situation can be looked at from many sides but
how do you reconcile having your loved one ripped away. You don’t it is just
life we grieve and we go forward, that is what any of us would want if it was
us that passed over.
2 comments:
I signed up for email notification and confirmed the link but no email. ;-( love your blog so far.
Hi Scott,
I know about you thru. Your beautiful mom!
This is a great link that you have started because I'm always asking her for you. May god give us all the strength to deal with every pitch we get daily from life
May god bless you with a miracle of health and many more years close to your family and friends.
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