Cancer Rocks Life's Foundation

A story of simple faith, tenacious love and perfect peace.

Cancer Came Calling

Cancer.  The word no doctor wants to say. The word no person wants to hear.   The very sound of the word makes time stand still.  The brevity of life suddenly is staring you in the face and the reality of death cannot be ignored.

In 2016 my precious mother and father sat in the office of one of the most respected retinal specialists in the United States and listened as he delicately told them that my mother had incurable ocular melanoma. 

Nothing can prepare a person for that news, no matter how carefully the doctor’s words are chosen.

Cancer. The news rocked our family to the core. Even though cancer had impacted several members of our extended family, this was different. This was mom. A woman in her mid sixties, full of life, full of energy, and took her health very seriously.

Yet cancer does not care about any of that. The disease is pure evil and is indiscriminate in those it holds in its grip. It is merciless as is wages war against the human body.