Cancer and Family

Breast Cancer, Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, Colon Cancer, Cervical Cancer. They crept into our lives uninvited, unwelcome, unwanted. But they were there, just the same, so we just have to learn to deal with them.
Having such a disease is a suffering, but seeing somebody close to you experiencing the woes of such disease is no picnic either. It is no fun watching your mother or uncle, niece throw up after struggling with the food they once couldn’t resist. Or listening to their moans of pain and not knowing how to help them. Or being at the receiving end of their erratic temper and stretching your patience knowing it was their disease acting and not the real person that they are.
But all this would be doubly tough on either the patient or the caregiver if each were alone in the struggle. And this is where a family’s support is most needed. And it is during this difficult time when one usually finds out one’s real family—ones that are bound with you by blood and those that are linked with you through the same experiences, going through the same path that fate has designed.