I heard some news today that seems to have really shaken me. It's a story of courage, of faith, love and pure grit and yet even though there is a lot of success, in the end it looses.
This is a story of a young woman called Jane. She had just given birth to a little boy and while breastfeeding found a lump on her breast. Sadly, this turned out to be breast cancer. They removed the lump and did a mastectomy. Presumably she got the all clear because she ran the Toronto marathon and spent Christmas in the Dominican. Unfortunately, Mrs H just emailed to say she had passed away - of a brain tumor. How can someone so determined to lead a normal life and be there for her children not make it? What happened to those divine creatures that were supposed to be there for those who really tried? Why didn't she get a second chance?
I do not know this young lady. Have never met her. Yet for some reason her life seems to resound with me. Maybe it's the way she also never seems to quit or maybe it's because she was also just trying to get on with her life like all the rest of us. Nonetheless it feels wrong.
Over the past hour I have questioned how it is even possible that a cancer patient who is being checked continuously for relapses would not be checked for a brain tumour? On the other hand, even if she had known she had a tumour - what can they do?
It just seems like a completely wrong ending to life that had so much to offer this world.
2 comments:
Chai-
I decided to read your blog just to learn more about you (after reading your comments on Laila's blog.) Putting all our political differences aside for a moment, I want to tell you-breast cancer is a horrible disease and I'm so sorry you lost your friend. I lost my beloved grandmother to breast cancer less than 2 years ago. Sadly towards the end, it also went to her brain.
If you want to be involved in the fight against breast cancer let me know. I have many links and am active in the Susan Komen organization.
Yonit
Hi Chai, same here. I want to react to one of your comment. I hope it's not too much trouble. You're welcome to delete this; all I want is for you to read this once. You said on Laila's blog:
I think it's time for all the Jews to get out of Palestine and what they now call Israel. Go back to where you came from and see if they will take you back - maybe that way you will learn to live peacefully with your neighbors.
60 years has obviously been too long for the Jews - they forgot what happened to them in Warsaw and are now creating a second Holocaust.
And you know, I appreciate that you're fighting the Zionists, but you got the wrong end of the tail here.
Zionism is one with Antisemitism.
The Zionists never opposed Hitler. Some of them even proposed to join the Wehrmacht.
Here is what Olmert said after Annapolis:
"If the day comes when the two-state solution collapses, and we face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights (also for the Palestinians in the territories), then, as soon as that happens, the State of Israel is finished."
See ? This is what Zionists fear the most: peace, coexistence, and equality between Jews and Arabs.
After the Dreyfus affair in France, where a large part of the population came to support a Jew against an injustice, the Zionists were furious; they were furious because it was obvious that Jews did not need a state to be protected. Again, this is what they hate: peace and coexistence.
So my opinion regarding statement is this: by being antisemitic, you are playing the Zionist game of racism and they are winning. If you want to piss off the fascist Zionists, you need to accept the Jews and oppose the Zionists among them; oppose them for their fascism, their racism, their inhumanity.
Zionists are cowards who hide behind the Jews of the rest of the world. But a lot of them know better, and they oppose Zionists with all their heart. God bless them.
Zionism is a branch of Judaism that once was marginal. It's time to make it marginal again. One state, equal rights. Fuck the Zionists, not the Jews.
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