Wear sunscreen
Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 12:24 am
Hi Folks,
Some of you may have noticed that I have not been posting as much as usual. Well it may be the overwhelming effects of alcohol but I would like to tell you why. And please realise that Tennesee's finest is helping me with this post.
Dan was my brother. He was to be 34 years old this year. On the 10th of May, after a good year of putting in his finest effort he lost his battle with melanoma. He always loved a good tan. Unfortunately, it stopped him from seeing his kids grow up.
Three years a go I started pestering him about a mole he had on his neck. He eventually saw a doctor and had it removed after it started bleeding.
After a while he had 27 stitches across his neck trying to remove the cancer. It was not enough. He got the bad news last year and it went downhill from there. From his neck it spread through his lymph nodes to the rest of his body. Despite experimental treatments and conventional treatment the cancer was too agressive and it reduced my brother to a shadow of what i remember him as.
I remember my brother as someone who could lift me one armed, not someone who needs help to go to the toilet. That is how this disease attacks the victim as well as the family.
To the end Dan fought in the hope of seeing his daughter be born as a healthy baby girl. Unfortunately he did not quite make it and Dakota was born a healthy baby girl 3 weeks after he passed away.
I truly hope that no person goes through what I have, unfortunately people go though worse every day.
Tonight I ask nothing more than you give your loved one a hug. I knew it was bad when my brother stopped shaking my hand, and started hugging me. He knew what the future held and every hug was sacred. I would give almost everything I have to hug my brother just once more.
Thanks for your time and please do wear sunscreen. Such a small thing can make a difference to your life.
Some of you may have noticed that I have not been posting as much as usual. Well it may be the overwhelming effects of alcohol but I would like to tell you why. And please realise that Tennesee's finest is helping me with this post.
Dan was my brother. He was to be 34 years old this year. On the 10th of May, after a good year of putting in his finest effort he lost his battle with melanoma. He always loved a good tan. Unfortunately, it stopped him from seeing his kids grow up.
Three years a go I started pestering him about a mole he had on his neck. He eventually saw a doctor and had it removed after it started bleeding.
After a while he had 27 stitches across his neck trying to remove the cancer. It was not enough. He got the bad news last year and it went downhill from there. From his neck it spread through his lymph nodes to the rest of his body. Despite experimental treatments and conventional treatment the cancer was too agressive and it reduced my brother to a shadow of what i remember him as.
I remember my brother as someone who could lift me one armed, not someone who needs help to go to the toilet. That is how this disease attacks the victim as well as the family.
To the end Dan fought in the hope of seeing his daughter be born as a healthy baby girl. Unfortunately he did not quite make it and Dakota was born a healthy baby girl 3 weeks after he passed away.
I truly hope that no person goes through what I have, unfortunately people go though worse every day.
Tonight I ask nothing more than you give your loved one a hug. I knew it was bad when my brother stopped shaking my hand, and started hugging me. He knew what the future held and every hug was sacred. I would give almost everything I have to hug my brother just once more.
Thanks for your time and please do wear sunscreen. Such a small thing can make a difference to your life.