Dana Thomsen

Blog #6

How Cancer can affect you

      Cancer and how it effects people’s life. It’s funny how you think you have your whole life ahead of you and you don’t. Paul finds this out as he is nearing the end of his residency. When he found out he had cancer their whole world.  Turned upside down. In the coming months, he goes through treatments, and they have a child. He spends time writing a book and time with his family. Then he passes. Kalanithi’s, then must figure out how to go on. After she reads a book “A Grief Observed” by C.S. Lewis. Then she finds out that “bereavement is not the truncation of married love but one of its regular phases.” She then learned how to breath. She is living for her and their daughter. They go to the place where Paul lays and Kalanithi lays with Paul and their daughter plays in the flowers. They are still living a life together, but apart. Kalanithi is even taking friend with her and they are having a beer with Paul and watching the sun set.

      I have realized that there is life after death in some ways. You may not see that special person every day, but they are still in your heart. I can understand how she feels, because I have lost someone and wish everyday they were still here.

     

      Kalanithi’s strong voice is worth listen to. I would have never looked at death like she does. I am glad she has written the article “My Marriage Didn’t End When I Became a Widow.” This was an awesome article on how you can look at death in a different way.  Hopefully it will ease the hurt of losing someone. I am glad Mr. Stills assigned us these two articles to read.