Reply #17: The first thing? [View All]

Ok, to be honest here it is.

I came from Ohio to see my X girlfriend and our daughter. I was happy and excited.

I called Mimi (my X GF) and she was at McD's getting our daughter a happy meal and said she would call me back at the hotel in about 10 minutes when she got home and I could come see her and my little girl.

She called me back. Her mom had just died from breast cancer. She got the call as she was heading home.

Never smoked, ate healthy food all the time, exercised, etc and so on.

A good woman gone to cancer, thankfully she got to know her granddaughter.

It does not matter what you do in life, it can get you. You can live clean as a whistle and do all the 'right' things, and still it can kill you (or at least have an impact on you).

And here I am a smoking and drinking fool. She lived life the 'right' way - did all she could to protect herself and be safe. And she is dead at a young age (early 50's).

The first thing I think of - cancer has no respect for you and how you live your life. It is not something that thinks and acts accordingly, it just IS. And if you think you are immune because your did x/y/z you are wrong. It does not care any more than a person working in a meat packing plant cares what a cow/chicken/fish did with it's life. It just swoops in and does what it does - kill.

You can invite it in all day long by how you live and it may never visit you. While others try hard to keep it away and it comes a calling.