It's a new year and I'm as healthy as I've ever been in my life. In May I will have been cancer free for 4 years but cancer is still out there causing havoc where ever it goes and who ever it chooses to infect or take from us. This bothers me because I continue to lose classmates to this awful disease. Friends and family that are younger than me is what bothers me the most. It makes me wonder why I was so successful in beating cancer and not getting a return visit when most people I know are only getting one chance in defeating this disease.

I lost a great friend to me and classmate last week to this disease and he only got one chance to fight it. He suffered for a few months but was too late once they found it. That makes one classmate this year and four last year and the ironic thing is, that all these classmates were younger than me. I have been thinking the last week is it guilty to feel this way in knowing that cancer takes people of all ages. Not sure how to feel but hopefully this is the last of my classmates, friends, and family to be taken like this.