The older I get, the more suffering and
pain I’ve experienced; and the more of both I stand witness to. From my wife’s
(and many, many of our friends and coworkers) battle against breast cancer; to
my dad’s (and the parents of many of our friends and coworkers) process as he
fades away as this complex disease breaks the connections between more and more
memories, I have become not only frustrated with suffering, pain, and having to
watch both, I have been witness to the suffering and pain among the students I
serve as a school counselor. I have become angry and sometimes paralyzed. This
is my attempt to lift myself from the occasional stifling grief that darkens my
days…
As breast cancer
affects men as well as women, sometimes we forget that not only are there young
women who are diagnosed, there is also the YOUNGEST woman diagnosed with rare form of breast
cancer.
Here’s the PEOPLE
Magazine article with an embedded short video:
Here’s a standard news
report Youtube:
Watch them and
weep; then allow yourself to be inspired.
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