HOW DO YOU DEAL…?

I found out yesterday that one of my friends has cancer. It came as a shock since he’s only 30 and I’m still trying to process all this. When you’re that age, you don’t really expect anyone to have serious health issues, much less cancer (but then, do you ever?). It isn’t something you want to hear either.

I can only imagine how hard it must be for him and his family to process the fact that he has lumps in his lymphatic nodes even though he was trying to find out what was wrong with him for months. There is a long battle ahead of him but luckily, the cancer is in early stages so the doctors tell him he has a great chance of beating it and coming out the winner.

It’s hard watching people close to you go through something like this but the worst thing about it is the uncertainty. He’s fiancé (whose quite tiny herself) said that he’d lost so much weight just from staying in the hospital for a few weeks. And the worst of it is still to come…

So I will keep him in my thoughts and pray that when this is all over, he will still be among us and stronger than ever…