Hi Brandon,

I read your post just now, even though the title was repelling me away every time I scrolled the articles. I felt it meant something hideous and, finally, I decided to read it to reproach you. Sorry. You see, I had cancer. Breast cancer, stage 3 in 2007. Simply, I couldn’t bear reading your title.

I am so glad to have found the courage to actually read it. Since your first sentence, I understood my full misunderstanding. I am sorry that I took it as a provocative article… even though, in a lovingly way, indeed it is. Probably, because English is not my first language, I didn’t get the right nuance of it.

All you wrote is right what happens when you are so unfortunate to meet and deal with cancer. My personal story walked and walks the same paths. Though years have passed by since my first diagnosis, I am still dealing with the consequences of it. I just came out of the hospital last week, where I had a bilateral reconstruction surgery on Friday and a second surgery on Sunday for internal bleeding. On Monday, I got 2 bags of blood as a necessary transfusion. Only yesterday, they took my last drainage off me.

What I just wanted to say to you is: I love you, your wife and your 3 brave little ones. You’ve been and are brave, and please, keep strong for your wife’tranquility... I am sure that she keeps thinking about the future of her children. At least, that anguishing thought was on my mind, even though I never enunciated it.

I cry for your hard sad situation. I can only send you all the positive universal energy healing all of you through love. I hug you and your family with all of my heart, keeping high all my hopes for your wife’s miraculous recovery.