Hoping mom is wrong...
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My mother just got back from visiting my aunt. The same aunt that is fighting off a second round of breast cancer. The same aunt that I went with my mother to visit back in the summer.
Sadly, mom is reporting that she doesn't think my aunt is doing all that well and that my uncle has a huge burden on him as he does everything he can for my aunt.
Since maturing into adulthood I've not said this very often, but I really hope mom is wrong. I hope my aunt is winning her fight, and hope that she's around for a long, long time, though I fear that mom is probably right and it may not be a fight gets to partake in too much longer.
Really, I hope that the near term future holds a cure of some sort for cancer, or at least as many forms of it as possible. Much has changed in my lifetime, and I hope much more does, at least in the areas of medical science. I'd love to be able to look back in say 5 - 10 years and say something to the extent of "do you remember when we had to worry about cancer?" but I suspect I may not live long enough to ever get to say that. Here's hoping I'm as wrong in that prediction as I hope my mother is in her diagnosis of the situation with my aunt.
) as well as she can. As you know, cancer doesn't fight fair, but it can be, at least at times and for some people, pushed aside and held at bay long enough to grant more time. Time that might be all that was needed to allow some of the medical establishment to find new treatments that will also lead to more time and possibly a cure.
