Cancer, Again ???

I feel so sad today, a friend of mine called me up, we talked about our kids and then she told me that her husband is undergoing chemotherapy. I feel so shocked. I didn’t know about it till she told me today. I feel so sad that her husband, who I feel is such a kind-hearted man, has it. It is so heartbreaking to hear it from a young Mom like her, who’s just starting out with her life here in the USA, with her husband and her one-year old son.

Actually, lately, I feel so bothered because so many people around me seems to be having cancer. My Mom’s friend has cancer. My coworker’s brother has it. Our neighbor downstairs has it. A friend of mine, her brother in the Philippines, has it too. My two caucasian brothers-in-law had a bit of those cancerous tissues that they had removed too.

Hearing all of these, I cannot help but be sad. I wonder why all of a sudden, that C word gets so mentioned up in my conversations, in emails sent to me. It’s so sad really. I know how scary it can be to the person who has it, thinking about the family, the finances, all those things. My heart just goes to all these people and their families,  especially for those with the worst kind , those in the terminally-ill kind of stage. I know it will never be easy.

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How in the world did cancer become so prevalent today? If its not genetics, then maybe it’s got something to do with the foods that we eat, in the air that we breathe, in our unhealthy lifestyle ? In the olden days, cancer is not that rampant, widespread and only the rich people had it before but now,it seems it just hits anybody.

I think that these days, we really have to think about how our food choices are wreaking havoc to our bodies. Ive been reading about it lately and I read that too much coffee, tea, sweets, meats, they are contributing factors in making cancer cells in our bodies go stronger and multiply. All of us have minute cancer cells in  our bodies but they go undetected since they have not yet grown to the detectable size, but if we are not careful with the things we do and eat, and our immune system is not strong, these cancerous cells grow and multiply.

I hope people who read this will not take things easy. I know some people are just too complacent, they do not want to think about things like these, it’s too morbid, too negative but think about it, do we still want to spend some more time with our loved ones or do we want to go on with our ways and risk our lives? If you’ll ask me, life is beautiful, and even more beautiful because I have a wonderful little boy that I’d want to stay longer with, so I am going to make a change in myself and in my family. No more fatty foods, no more caffeine and sugar filled treats, no more to too much meats , and late nights in front of my computer. I’ll make myself strong enough, make my immune system be able to fight off the cancer cells. I want to be one less of a number that will have that big C.

I am saying “NO” to cancer !!!

Please read: We Can Fight Cancer

P. S.

Now if I can just have that lump in my foot checked. I have this lump that I have always ignored, one that I happened to notice when I got here in the States. I haven’t had it checked because I feel scared what the findings will be. I hope it’s not what I fear it is.