Double whammy!! (If there's such a word).
Well, I was at the hospital yesterday to see my lung specialist. I caught the cough bug again. This time around I've decided to go and see the doctor for a proper check-up and medication. I have to make sure that I recover before my trip.
It seems that the flu and cough bug is back again. What else is new!! However I have to be very extra careful. Our good friend's children were hospitalized for bronchitis and it's going around too. It's in the air. Thank God that they have recovered.
This afternoon I called the hospital to request some medication for my anxiety attack at the oncologist clinic. So as usual, I would request to talk to "L". She's one of the Oncologist nurse who have been helping out hundreds or maybe thousands of cancer patients in that hospital. She was my favorite nurse. I remember those days during my chemo treatment, she would come and visit me in the morning to see how I'm coping with the treatment. She was sweet and calm. She's gentle when it comes to handling needles and flushing out my chemo port. She would spray and numb the area before any procedure that requires needle-poking through your skin. Yes, I'm a chicken when it comes to needles.
Anyway, today I found out that she had left. Meaning, I no longer get to see her during my every 4-6 month medical check-up with the oncologist. I was told that she left because she's getting married and moving down to Singapore to work. Bummer!!! I didn't even got the chance to congratulate and wish her well at all. I was stunned. *sigh*
On another note, how do you react to a person who tells you that he/she have cancer and it's at stage 4? What makes it devastating is that he/she is in the late 20's, was an athlete and has a kid.
Speechless? Yeah, I bet some of you are!! Look around or ask yourself, what if this person is YOU.
I'm in my mid 30's. I have family, 2 beautiful kids and a wonderful husband who have been there for me during thick and thin. I fought hard and I survived. Alhamdulillah. Of course my life has never been the same after that.
While this person, similar to my condition before this (different diagnosis of a type of lung cancer) is probably not lucky as I am as he/she caught it at a later stage. Again, let me remind you that this person is in the late 20's and has a kid. Cancer at young age is very risky.
How do you react to this news? Would you as his/her friend stick around and give your full support to this person? Or walk out from the whole relationship/friendship and let the person deal with it alone? He/she may have family but unfortunately no spouse to give him/her additional support neither does the child knows anything about his/her illness.
I pray for this person's health that he/she will fight through this obstacle and be a survivor too. Insya'ALLAH. LiveSTRONG!!
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