Finding Blessings In Disguise

My dad's twin brother is lying in a hospital bed dying of a cancer that wasn't diagnosed until just a month or so ago.   Something unusual showed up during an eye exam of all things, and now liver cancer has consumed him. In the wake of my two visits to the hospital today, I have tried to wrap my brain around how someone could look so healthy for a 70+ year-old man at the Thanksgiving and then be so frail today.   While I have had friends experience the effects of cancer, I have never really seen it first-hand until today.  My summary of it is that it sucks.  It is an evil beast and needs to be eradicated from this world. To see my aunt caring for a grown man as if he were a child is just wrong.  Cancer is a beast that doesn't just steal life from our grasp, but it adds insult to injury in addition to all of the pain and suffering. We lost my father 25 years ago to a massive heart attack.  The doctor told us that he was probably dead before he even hit ...