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When Multiple Sclerosis is a Blessing
This past April I received a call from a close client of mine for the past 15 years. His name is Richard he's 49 years old and owns a car repair shop.
He started out the call very unlike any call before, Hey Bob- are you a church going man?I replied, Sure Richard I am.
At an instant I became a friend and not a tax advisor to his car repair shop.
Richard than explained to me that he had a type of skin cancer called melanoma
Richard was diagnosed with this skin cancer 11 year's ago, and it was removed and assumed a no longer threat to Richard health.
Doctors were positive that they had taken care of the problem until recently when Richard started having problems with his lungs. Eleven years later Richard found out this his cancer was not gone it had spread to his lungs and brain. Richard's first surgery was to remove 10-20% of the lungs on both the right and left side. The next treatment would be an interferon. Fortunately for Richard there would be no chemo or radiation. Everything looked positive and Richard would get back to his normal life until last week.
Richard's wife found him unconscious in bed. He was rushed to the hospital where doctors discovered a tumor pressing on his brain. The skin cancer doctors removed 11 years ago had taken over and spread to his brain.
Yesterday the doctors told him that his chance of survival with this type of advanced cancer was near zero. From thriving man at age 49- husband, father of two children to terminal cancer patient in eight months.
The magnitude of this is hard to understand. But I still have hope that the human body with the right belief in healing can overcome even this. My prayers go out to Richard and I ask for yours as well.
If all this wasn't enough I had a conversation with Richard's father yesterday. In offering my comment that my thoughts were with him and his son he informed me that his family had been thinking of me as well. At a time like this they are still thinking of me and my MS. We are all connected in this world in a special way.
I am humbled that this family can still think of me when their situation seems so much worse then my issues with MS. Please pray for this family and wish them peace.
So, when looking at the title of this blog post, When Multiple Sclerosis is a Blessing many of us think of MS as a curse, but I would rather have MS than be my friend who has cancer.
About the Author Robert Groth is the author of "Conquer Multiple Sclerosis". To receive a FREE Ebook go to http://conquerms.com/multiple-sclerosis-blessing/
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