Cancer is a scary thing. A very scary thing.
Cancer means hospital visits and more hospital visits and even more hospital visits.
Cancer means uncertainty. Uncertainty about the future or even uncertainty about day-to-day schedules. Plans can change at the drop of a hat.
Cancer affects everyone who knows the person. Regardless of how close you are, you still feel for the person and that person's family. When my grandpa got diagnosed with cancer this summer, it impacted my family, of course, but it also impacted the people my grandpa said hi to when he got fish every Friday. It impacted his neighbors, the people at church, and even the woman who works at the pharmacy counter at Wal-Mart.
Phone calls and cookies and random favors don't make the cancer go away, but they bring people together in an effort to reach one common goal. Cancer and sickness give chances to show love and that's what helps form communities. Families grow closer, friendships are formed, renewed, and strengthened.
Cancer itself isn't a good thing. It's a terrible thing. But not everything that it brings about is bad.
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