Sickness

Does anyone really like to be sick? Think about it. You miss school. When you miss school, you don't get to learn what the rest of the class did and if you missed a test, you have to make more time to make it up. And for most teachers, they take points off for missing and only allow you to miss so many classes. When one person in a class gets sick, certain people get paranoid about getting sick; especially when a "pandemic" is occurring. Some people carry around sanitizer and even disinfectant wipes to wipe off keyboards, desks and mice. Then later in life, you miss work which means you miss out on pay, then you can't buy what you want or go where you want. Things really start to add up fast. But when you really think about it, most of the time, it's just a common cold. Everyone gets them. They come and go. Nothing to worry about, except being miserable for about a week.

But can you imagine having a life-threatening illness or even cancer? I don't think anyone ever wants to think about these possibilities. Nobody would ever wish such a terrible thing onto another person. We all wish there was some "magic cure" for everything. However, this is not reality. In reality, people suffer and the majority with die because of their illness or cancer. For those that do win the battle, their life is changed forever.

Sometime after I was born, my mom was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. For those that don't know what the thyroid gland does or where it is, it is located in your neck and helps regulate your body temperature. Her thyroid was removed and she underwent treatment. I am unsure what kind of treatment it was, but it worked. Well, needless to say, mom won her battle with cancer and today lives a completely normal life. The only thing that is different now from before is that ever since her thyroid was removed, she has to take a supplement pill every morning. For as long as I can remember, she's always been the cold one in the winter.

One way to look at this is I never had to watch her suffer, but on the other, I was never there for her. There is not a day that goes by that I am not thankful that she is here with me. I'm not sure, and quite frankly never want to think about, what life would be like without her. All that I know is one should never give up hope. Don't ever think that this is the end or there's nothing else worth living for. Because the more you think about it, the more reasons you'll find to live.