I heard this evening that a very dear, old friend of my family has died after five years of fighting cancer. It seems so cruel that the battle should be lost in the end.
Memories permeate this night. I look at photographs from my childhood and see the people we were. And then I look at what we have become. Cancer is relentless, it shows no remorse, no shame and makes no apologies; every time someone I know loses their fight, I realise how lucky I have been - and then I wonder if the next visit to the hospital will be the day I learn it has returned.
Each day, research makes new breakthroughs, but each day specialist nurses work with those research cannot help. We contribute to support research - let's now contribute to support the work of Marie Curie Cancer Care and Macmillan Nurses; who knows when you and I may need them to support us in our last fight.
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