The C Word.

Recently a very dear friend of mine was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma.
A type of cancer that begins in your blood cells and collects in your bone marrow, where in my friends case, it multiplies, becomes tumour after tumour and starts to cause you pain..


It's not a nice cancer.  Actually, there is really nothing nice about it.


Except when it shows just how strong a person can be.  How brave they are.  And in turn, how brave it can make you.


When I found out, my initial reaction was devastation.  But seeing as I was on my way to visit my Grandmother in hospital, who was recovering from open heart surgery not just one week before - I had to be brave. I had to keep a blank face.


I kept that blank face until I got home, until I laid down and cried for my friend. Cried for the unfairness of cancer, of who it can 'strike', for my beautiful friend who doesn't deserve this crappiness to be inside her.


Until I pulled myself up, wiped away my tears and decided tears were no way to support her. She needs friends who are just as strong and happy as she is. 


She needs friends who will support her.   


This is no ordinary person.  Let me tell you! She treats this as just another journey in life. Just another path that she's following and discovering.


She is strong. She is brave.  She is positive.


And personally I can't think of a better combination.


She is so inspiring, that she has decided to put pen to paper... So to speak..
Her journey is being documented, in a very therapeutic way. 


Take some time to read her story. 


Love you Vix.


Xx


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