Thank you Lina and Steph for your kind words.
Although M's cancer is currently in remission which has only been confirmed recently through a series of highly invasive pathology tests, please keep your healing prayers coming as you cannot ever talk about having been completely cured from this killer disease.
At this point there is little else that any of us can do but to provide what encouragement and support which we are able. Sometimes just knowing that there is someone outside our immediate family who cares can make a very positive healing difference to the person's survival rate.
With all the people from all over the world (most of whom we will never meet in person) who are praying for my wife and myself, I believe that we have a huge support network on our team that many cancer patients could only dream about having.
Sometimes I find knowing that this is happening and continues to happen very emotionally overpowering and humbling at the same time. We are both very grateful and appreciative for the support which we have been given and feel that we have been given a second chance at life.
Our main challenge now is to discover exactly why we have been given a second chance, when so many others have not. It is times like these in our lives which force us to contemplate our own mortality and question our reason and purpose for being here at all.
Chronic and potentially terminal illnesses and disabilities (not only in elderly people) can make us examine our lives more closely under the microscope than most people do in their entire lifetime, for us to decide what is really important, and what is if we were honest with ourselves of little or no significance.
The top 10 list of what is really important in our lives looks like the following.......
Number one is:
How much we have loved (unconditionally), and have been loved in return by those people who are closest and dearest to us in this world.
If you get that number one item right, items number 2 all the way through to number 10 will naturally and automatically follow it as a direct and inevitable consequence of how successful and happy you were at and while doing this.
Thanks again everyone,
EoT
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