Cancer In My Family
Cancer, as you know, is one of the worst diseases that exists in the world -- and maybe is the worst one because it kills so many people every year. In my case it has happened to a lot of people in my family on both my mother's and father's side. I really don’t remember much of an aunt named Laura who died from lung cancer when I was 3 years old. Her lung cancer was classified as a carcinoma type derived from epithelial cells. She had the first cancer when she was only 13 years old, so my grandparents took her here to Tucson, to try to take care of this cancer, because we all lived in Mexico and, well, thirty years ago in Mexico the medicine wasn’t any good. She made it and the doctors said that she didn’t have that long, so she was the favorite of my grandfathers, and they gave her everything she wanted: trips, cars, you name it. She lived for another fifteen or sixteen years in good health, but then the cancer came back much worse. Again she came here to try to beat it, but this time she didn’t make it. She died at the age of 31.
It was a really painful moment for my family because she was the youngest in the family. My mother say that when she was dying, she was lying on the bed, and she was saying "Luis come here, Luis come here!" That’s me, her only nephew. They say she was seeing Jesus as a child, and then she passed away.
Also, from my father's family, where everyone smokes, my aunts Ana and Gaby had breast cancer almost at the same time. That was just like five years ago and the other one four years ago, but with the chemotherapy they both made it. But it wasn't easy because they lost their hair and you know how women are about their hair. So it is a warning for all the smokers in my family, maybe more for mine because I may be at risk of cancer from both sides of the family, and that's why none of us should be smoking. So for everyone that reads this: DON'T SMOKE! It can happen to any of us. Thanks.
It was a really painful moment for my family because she was the youngest in the family. My mother say that when she was dying, she was lying on the bed, and she was saying "Luis come here, Luis come here!" That’s me, her only nephew. They say she was seeing Jesus as a child, and then she passed away.
Also, from my father's family, where everyone smokes, my aunts Ana and Gaby had breast cancer almost at the same time. That was just like five years ago and the other one four years ago, but with the chemotherapy they both made it. But it wasn't easy because they lost their hair and you know how women are about their hair. So it is a warning for all the smokers in my family, maybe more for mine because I may be at risk of cancer from both sides of the family, and that's why none of us should be smoking. So for everyone that reads this: DON'T SMOKE! It can happen to any of us. Thanks.