During the past 4 months, I have been having coffee meetings with JC who is another monster fighter. Today he goes into the hospital for additional testing and my thoughts are with him. He has been an inspiration to me. "If we get through this day, we can fight another day tomorrow and who knows, maybe a medical breakthrough will occur." These words make sense to me. I am finding that there is an exponential growth rate regarding cancer knowledge and cures.
Cancer is a sneaky disease and has many faces, it is very much like my other disease ... alcoholism. Everyone has their own perception of what the disease is and I find people do a "lot of lumping together" when talking about cancer and other illnesses such as alcoholism. From what I have found out, there are over a 100 different varieties of cancer; prostate cancer, breast cancer, skin cancer, etc. Each monster behaves differently and is treated differently.
It is the same with alcoholism; there are many different "forms" of the disease. Many people think a person has to drink a ton of booze everyday. This was the case for me, however, I was one of the lucky ones. This aggressiveness made it obvious to everyone but me, that I had a problem. However, I have know folks who are alcoholics and they drank much less than me and some only drank a couple of times a years. Some on the other hand are "dry drunks". They don't drink but they are in the grips of the illness.
There is one common link between cancer and alcoholism; their primary purpose is to kill their host, their victim! The disease's secondary purpose is to destroy families and friends.
This is why spiritual and human support is so important; God and medicine can work wonders and I pray they work for JC today. God's Speed my friend.
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