Sometimes fate just decides to kick you when you're down (you never know what you got til it's gone)

[negoldie]

5. I don't know you

but I have a story to tell also. In 2015, my brother, both my sisters (one with gleoplastoma, although she is holding on) and myself were all diagnosed with one form of cancer or another. It's in our genes. Both parents died of cancer. I have been living with Mantle Cell Lymphoma for four years.
My wife and I were both diagnosed with lung cancer just three weeks ago, within a couple of days of each other. She has stage 4 small cell lung cancer. Very aggressive spreads to other organs quickly. She asks for prayers.
On top of my MCL (which is rare, chronic and unpredictable) I have stage two non small cell lung cancer. We are into our second week (of seven weeks) of radiation. Her third chemo treatment was yesterday, she will have three treatments for chemo very three weeks, plus radiation 5 days a week. I have one treatment once per week, plus 5 days of radiation. The closest place for radiation is 65 miles round trip.
As you say, it certainly puts a lot of things in perspective. Life, happiness, love for your fellow human beings....I post my GFM page here with some trepidation. But my wife is in real need right now. It will probably be taken down but when you are so poor you have to put your name out there....well we are in real need.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/y4d8hs