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During the course of my day of working hard at doing nothing,  I happened upon a post on FaceBook this date  that brought out a lot of good things for me, the people that made remarks on the post, and the poster.  A long ago friend of a community, heritage, and blogging peer named, Diane.  On her post was information of a family member that had been stricken with cancer and fought the battle of his life.  Today was the two year anniversary of his passing.  My heart aches for the living.  The family of the stricken.

I am three years soon to be (hopefully)celebrating “cancer free” after a CT/Pet scan scheduled for the 12th of January, 2010 .  This has ultimately got me to thinking about things that could have been.  Which in turn made think about how things turned out.  Which lead me to a cancer survivor network.  To obtain answers to both of those questions.   I did find answers.  To those particular questions…well,  maybe not exactly…?  But I think the cumulative  total of the readings garnered information to make more than a fair judgement since I lived it as well.

When happening upon this post of my friend’s blog about her brother  it called me for its topic… remembering.  The Cancer Network that I had been frequenting had become a place friendly enough to know some of the many  on the whole board.  Relationships that were built on the written word one can easily separate the wheat from the chaff.  The sincere posters and the story tellers.   The cancer survivors that want to return what they have received and not the people that have an underlying agenda.  I see change is in the air around my house.   After spending hours  reading the threads of  cancer victims such as myself  I came to have a relationship with individual posters as they responded to my queries  as well as others.  The care given the individual who needs help and advice is out of this world on this forum.  Many of the people that post on the cancer site are the cancer victims family.  They too have memories of their loved ones.  Non were more memorable  then Diane’s blog about rembered.

The road that Steven Johnson traveled is inevitable for us all.  What highlighted his trip for me was the relationship his sister had with him.  Two years after his passing she is still waxing eloquent his life and times.  I am working on my life everyday.  The cancer that invaded my body took me down a few notches.  I am still climbing back to “New Normal” and my blogger friend Diane is adjusting to hers.   What we have in common is the new normal of life after cancer.  I hope that I share the same family experience of remembrance .   Steve was not as lucky as I to still be here today but to say say he was unlucky would not be true either.  The love and support of his family still shows two years after his passing.  I have no doubt that this feeling will never wain.  Steve Johnson and I are the lucky ones.  We both have family who love us.  Now that is something that one can never have enough of in this life or into the next life.

I invite  my readers to stop by Diane’s blog you wont’ be disappointed!!

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