Cancer Does Not Discriminate

There is no distinction, discrimination or favouring when it comes to cancer! You can be fat or skinny, white or black, kind or mean, blonde or brunette, young or old. My mother is waiting on a biopsy to determine what is happening with her pancreas, the doctors say that she has a 99% chance she has pancreatic cancer. This will be the 5th time she has had to battle it, the last four times was for Hodgkins Lymphoma (Hodgkins Disease) a cancer that attacks your lymph glands. This time however she is 74 years old and frail, the last time she had cancer was 11 years ago and she had Dad to encourage her and look after her, and well Dad ain't here to do that.  I haven't seen my mother as thin as she is now. We went to visit her today and she didn't look too bad, a little uncomfortable with some pain but she was very happy to see us all. I think maybe mum has accepted her condition as she did the previous times. My only wish is that the treatment will work just as it did then. We can only hope and pray and support her during her next battle. I am still hopeful that perhaps it's a cancer that can be treated and a speedy recovery to follow.

Steph