Gut Feeling

My reason for choosing this article is due to something in which i would like to highlight to each and everyone of you:"Life is precious, treasure it. Every human being is only given a chance to live."
In this article, Lynn Sherr a reporter, suffers an acute pain in her gut and she was diagnosed with appendicitis. However, this lady felt that the diagnosis was not right, instead it should be cancer. This article also mentioned her indirectly fearing death as she knows that colon cancer or colorectal cancer can lead to death;she wanted to turn back the clock, making everything the way it was before. She wanted to be a normal person living a normal life. Yes, I can understand her feelings at that point of time. It's the usual "HUH?!" reaction observed from most of us after finding out that we are actually suffering from a particular illness, and it might not necessarily be a major illness. We have to admit that everyone in the world fears death. Yes death, why so?

I am certain that majority of us have ever thought of this question: "Where does death lead to?" There are certainly many answers to this question, depending on each and every one, our religions, their beliefs. For example: For the Taoist, we believe that there is actually a classification in which the so-called 'good' people will fall to the "heaven" category, while the 'bad' people will fall to the "hell" category. This answer is neither wrong nor right.
There are no scientific provings of where we would end up after our deaths. Basically, what i am trying to point out is that, YES although we do not know where death leads us to, it is still certain that after a certain age, when it is time for us to go, we will. And before its our time to "go", why not treasure every moment every day, doing what you want to do, because you are never sure of what is going to happen the next day. From here, i would like to share my own experience, the person dearest to me leaving me all of a sudden without any notice. Yes, she watched me grow up since i was a baby. Left me when I was 14. I was still chatting her on a saturday night, a seemingly healthy adult for her age. Nothing was wrong till few hours later, where she complained of numbness, and not being able to move. The words that came out of her mouth wasn't arranged into proper sentence. It was already 12 midnight. My parents and I admitted her to Tan Tock Seng, we then found out that she was suffering from brain haemorrhage. By the time she was admitted, she became unconscious. Her heart was beating slower and slower by the second. From then, I just realised how crucial time was, how important it is to treasure ourselves.
For the case of Lynn Sherr, it is really heartening to hear that she is considered a normal person again although there is still a risk of recurrence.

From this article, I would like to highlight something from the article, the part in which she went for chemotherapy the first time. She started feeling sustained as mentioned after seeing people, be it, man or woman, without hair, without limbs. There, was just a peaceful environment, everyone smiled "the tolerant and knowing smile of experience". Yes, i felt that it was a great opportunity for lady Lynn Sherr to get to experience and to soothe her, comforting her that she's not the only one in the world who has cancer, she is not alone. There are other people and their health conditions might be more life-threatening than hers. To me, i feel that she gets to understand that life is definitely unfair, not perfect and never predictable. From this, I feel that she will treasure it more and more. This making her life valuable, priceless...

To all cancer patients: "Be strong! Live life to the fullest!"

Cheryl