bencoleman, ya' need to read this

hey buddy, let me tell you about my trip to the doctor today....you know that me and a bunch of other sinners on this board are praying for you every day, and on some days, most all day long....you also know that as a 2 time survivor myself, i am not going to try to blow sunshine,lollipops and unicorn farts up your arse, but you do need to get a load of this:
the wife and i went to the doc's office early this morning for blood work and since i take painkillers, to pee in the cup....in walks some folks that used to be our neighbors for over 25 years in a former life when i lived on the lake and fished every day....she is close to 80 and we could tell that she had lost weight and walked kinda' staggery-like....after she registered, she recognized us and came over and told us her story....she had just completed radiation and chemo for lung cancer( non-smoker) that had spread to the brain.....she still had a tiny spot on her lung that was being watched, but her brain tumor was gone....her doctors told her that there was no reason to not to expect to beat this cancer now, and that spot could very well have been caused by the 35 radiation treatments and there were no plans for surgery and/or another biopsy....tim, her son, was with her and i caught him off to the side to make sure that she was shooting straight, and he said exactly what she said....
pray a lot, expect to live but prepare to die...cancer patients are my family, whether i know you or not, because i have been there....i didn't even expect to live and i prepared to die....cancer was the biggest blessing or my sorry life because it separated what i thought was Real from what was really Real.....
later, i'll share something else with you about a distant cousin of mine, with 4 kids, aged 8 months to 6 years, who was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer during her pregnancy with the baby....she was given 6 months....this is something in its early stage, but now they say that she might be able to live long enough to see her kids grown....i'm telling you man, miracles happen!....see if God has an extra one laying around somewhere