Cancer; Promises and Love---How Has Cancer Affected YOUR Life?

My question to you the reader is this. How has cancer affected your life? How has it changed the way you see things? Do you still mourn even if has been sometime? For to share is to release, and to release is to heal. I want to hear your story, I want to feel and share your pain as well as share mine with you. If you have a story to tell, then I want to hear it and in an odd sort of way be here for you. I know your pain; your hurt and dismay. Please share so that we all who read may this find the light unto recovery. Contact information is below this, my first insert.

The letter “C” can be the start of many words. This letter of the alphabet alone does not carry much weight. However, add a few more letters with it and it can grow to mean many things. For example, if you were to add an A…and an R and finally an E, you can derive the word CARE. Then you have ANCER placed after the C and you come up with CANCER. I used to think that this word only happened to other people. Though I would feel bad for those involved, and I would pray for them, I never really knew that word on a personal basis. Unfortunately my personal knowledge of that word; that black curse would soon invade my own life.

It first fell upon my ears in the summer of 2008 when my lovely wife of twenty-three years was diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer. She was given less than six weeks to live. However she held on for three months to see our last anniversary on August the 24th and then even still two weeks longer until she passed away in my arms on her birthday September the 7th. Now I too have felt the sting of death that starts with the simple letter “C”.
This has dealt an immeasurable impact on my life. For you see, I only thought that this happened to other people. We were both Christians; we went to church, we worshiped God, and we believed. So, I ask myself even as I pen this blog…How could this happen to us?

I have since written a book which I entitled “GLIMPSE OF AN ANGEL”. The reasoning behind this book was, and is not to achieve fame a glory, yet rather an explication of what it is to walk through, and live with the scarlet letter “C” impaled upon ones heart for eternity. Fortunately for me, I was in a position at my place of employment that I was able to take a leave and care for my wife at home right up to the very end. For more information about this Journey, then please visit any of the following sites.
http://glimpseofanangel.com/default.aspx
http://www.throughfaithandfear.com/index.php
http://www.jallenwilson.com/

Or you can write to me by post at the following; I look forward to hearing from you.
J. Allen Wilson
PO BOX 464
Belton, SC. 29627