How much can one person take?

How many times can a person be touched by cancer and still be sane? Three years ago my dad died suddenly of lung cancer complications. He was 60, I was 28 and suddenly my mom was a widow. Life has a funny way of making things better and suddenly friends were coming out of the woodwork and letting me into thier stories. SO many young people in my life has lost a parent to cancer. This club that I hadn't signed up for kept getting bigger and bigger.

Life started becoming normal again and my daughter was born a year after dad died. Things were looking up. Then last March life became crappy again. Five days before her 60th birthday my mom was diagnosed with uterine cancer. Happy F***ing birthday. So here I was a working mom of a 15 month old girl, a loving wife and suddenly the daughter of a cancer patient with no spouse to care for her. Of course Karma worked it's magic during her hysterectomy and my mom ended up with not only a perforated bowel and a colostomy, but a nasty infection pocket in her incision (not cut open twice). Happy F***ing mother's day. Our summer was filled with dressing changes, doctor appointments and parts of your mother that you should never see! Three months of chemo and 5 weeks of radiation later mom is doing wonderfully and feeling herself again...thank god!

I figure we did something REALLY bad in our past life beacuse Karma did not like us this past year. Not only did mom have to deal with cancer but her only sister also had a tumor removed from her ovary. So the sisters had chemo at the same time and had the cutest shaved heads together. Unfortunately my aunt's cancer journey isn't over as she recently had cancerous fluid removed from her abdomen.

In our family we don't mince words. We are realists but we also don't take things lying down. "F*** cancer, embrace life" embodies our feelings on the matter. Thank you for for putting it into words and onto a non-rubber bracelet!

F YOU CANCER, YOU CAN'T TAKE US DOWN.