War and Cancer - I hate them BOTH

I have lost friends to both war and cancer. It hurts.

I wish both were abolished forever. There is a cure for cancer. It's a killer. It's purpose is to destroy the body. It grows and only by extraordinary violent means is the cancer stopped.

It's ugly, it's painful. It causes loss.

One of my friends, Beth, who had brain cancer lost her hair, lost weight, lost a part of her brain, lost her complexion and bluntly wondered all thru her treatment if it was worth it all. The price for fighting cancer was too high. It made her cry. It caused her pain. She was sick much of the time.

But after almost three years of fighting Beth was declared cancer free. Today, 5 years later she is much recovered. Oh there are scars, there is remembrance, there has been loss. It cost her a marriage. She went nearly bankrupt from the cost of the cure. She lost her home.

But she's alive and recovering. Beth is brave.

There is a cancer on the earth that is trying to kill us. We can let it and avoid the pain and tears or we can take the treatment and live.

The price either way is expensive and painful.

One way is certain death, death coming while we are pretending there is no threat, the other is life, difficult but life.

I hate war and I hate the process people have to go thru to cure cancer. Neither are desirable. Some work better than others. It's all hope trust and attempts, some that fail, some that succeed. It's the end that justifies the means. Some people do extraordinary things while fighting cancer.

But hiding and hoping the cancer will go away is not a cure, it's just fatal delay.

War. For the right reason, it's all we have.