Cancer SUCKS!

   You would figure with as long as cancer has been around they would have found a cure for it. Cancer has taken so many wonderful people in my life. It is the one thing that makes me feel weak and powerless. I can get through most stuff, fix most things, but when it comes to cancer I fall like a house of cards.

   This time cancer is taking one of the most caring, loving, Christian woman I know. She is a leader of our 5th and 6th grade youth at my church. When my son meet her, he just feel in love. She took him in and cared for him like he was one of her own. That is how she thinks of all the children in our church.
   Last Friday they told her she had Pancreatic Cancer, her first words were "What a Bummer" She takes everything with a light heart and just accepts it. How many people in your life can do that when faced with news of cancer. So they went in yesterday to remove the tumor and found out that it was more complex than they thought. There were things they were not able to see on the CT scans and reports that showed up in real life. What looked like a tumor that was manageable in size, turned out to be large and wrapped around the artery and other organs. It was too dangerous to take any of it out at that point. In addition, they found more tumors in her liver that were hidden by the previously seen tumor. So when she woke up and her husband told her the news instead of crying or screaming she called him a doofus head for worrying. She goes back in for a follow up with the Dr next Friday, but at this point they are giving her 3-6 months to live.
    I can only hope that if I ever had to face the news that she has, that I will look at it like she has. At a time like this how can you not wonder how God could let this happen to such a wonderful woman. How could he take such a strong positive influence in the church away from our children! I know that it is not his doing, or his will but it just seems as though he could have stepped in and made these tumors managable not terminal. I know that this will bring our children closer together in their faith because of knowing Mrs Charlene, but what about the ones that will never know such a bright, shining example of Christian love and faith.
   And how do I explain this to my son? How do I tell him? Do I tell him?

~truly saddened