Three months to live.

When is the last time you took a minute to really sit back and appreciate everything you have in your life? You might want to do that before its too late. As people we go through life thinking "it can't happen to me" when it actually can. The "it" I'm referring to is a disease we all know. A disease that kills more people in one day than any other way of death. The disease we all know as cancer. My uncle was diagnosed with it in spring 2009. I'll never forget the day he found out. He had been having problems going to the bathroom and when he went to the doctor he was told he had cancer of the liver, lymph nodes, lungs, and kidneys. Needless to say, he had 3 months to live. He said that he had accepted it but the rest of the family couldn't yet comprehend this shock. He soon transferred from the local hospital the the Cancer Center in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. After that transfer he ended up living past those 3 months. He went back & forth between home & philadelphia getting chemotherapy. During that entire process he lost around 80 or 90 pounds which made him go from overweight to looking frail, skinny and boney. The week of Christmas was the last time I saw him. I'll never forget the last thing he said. He was bed-ridden at this point and could barely talk while going in and out of sleep. He had been asleep while my family was crammed into his medium-sized bedroom crying just at the sight of his pain. He awoke, noticing this and simply/calmly said, "why is everyone crying?" He didn't want people to cry or feel sorry for him. He had accepted both his death & Jesus Christ a long time before it came to this point. He was the type of person who would blast rock music so loud that he had to go outside but would not go back in until Mr Hanky the Christmas poo was shaken off the wall. He would lay on his porch with his best friend shining laser lights on cars passing by the make then either speed up or slam on the brakes because they thought they were being shot at. He loved spongebob squarepants, south park & even beavis and butthead. Nothing was ever too difficult for him to handle in a calm manner. He died on December 26, 2009.