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...only battling an injured jaw and an insurgent young rival, but also the recent death of his mother. She died in March after being diagnosed with cancer in 2004. "If I won seven times in a row, I'd be there with [Lance] Armstrong," Kobayashi, 29, said through an interpreter, referring to the seven-time Tour de France winner. "I think that was what was keeping her alive. She had a will to see me." Yet his old exuberance was missing. The injury had prohibited him from eating a hot dog in more than two weeks, which clearly affected...
...have something to tell you. I have cancer. I have eyeball cancer...
...line from a terribly bad-humored, two-minute cartoon we viewed years ago in high school. I would have laughed too if this scene had occurred three months ago. I do not find it funny anymore. It is simply a bad joke about a tragic event: acquiring cancer. True, eyeball cancer sounds ridiculous in the cartoon that parodied overly paranoid individuals; however, it is not as humorous when it hits close to home...
Three months ago, I found out that my maternal aunt in her late thirties was diagnosed with stage two cancer of the lungs. This came as a huge shock because she never smokes, no one around her smokes, and our family does not have a history of cancer. The doctor says the environment might have caused it. Whatever the reason, she is now preparing for chemotherapy after taking an MRI to check if the cancerous cells have spread to her brain because she has been having blinding headaches, and a test of seven lymph nodes surrounding her lungs for presence...
...before had to deal with the death of someone close to me. Though I’ve had tribulations, they were not life-altering events: My great aunt, whom I did not know, passed away; arguments always subsided and resolved; and my high school volleyball coach recovered from breast cancer after months of chemotherapy. While grief has grazed me in the past, these encounters with almost-tragedies left me unprepared for the present...