Cancer is not so bad “Adversity is just a change that we have not adapted ourselves to.” "Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." ~Joshua J. Marine Cancer has killed many people in the world, but it is not so bad after all. We rushed up to the hospital in Temple Texas with the sign of fright on our faces. While my dad was already in there from the night before. Me, my mom and my younger brother went up to the last floor of the gigantic hospital. Walking into the hospital room I could tell something was wrong with my dad, his face looked green. He had very abnormal bruises up and down his body. “The blood labs came back last night and we have some pretty bad news, Mr. Webber, you have leukemia.” My dad had been diagnosed with ALL- acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Before this news I had been living in a fantasy world, nothing bad in my life had happened, the worst thing I had to deal with was losing a baseball state championship game. I knew right when I heard the doctor say those words my life would change forever, and it did. My dad battled this terrible disease for two years, being in and out of the hospital, and me not seeing him that much. Through all of this I had to learn how to do real life things like mowing the lawn, learn how to fix things around the house, all being jobs that my dad would do but he was not there to do it because I was now the man of the house. After fighting cancer for two years my dad ended up getting this awful infection that started in his throat and would eventually work its way up to his head, and he had no white blood cells to fight off this infection. The doctor told him that he had one week to live, so he decided to come home to die at his home around his loved ones. He lasted eight days and passed on August fourteenth twenty-twenty with his teammates by his side. This was really hard for me with how close I was to my dad, but then I really had to sit down and think about what all happened. I realized that this was supposed to happen, that I was meant to go through such a hard time. I registered that cancer is not so bad after all because it taught me what the real world is, and it made me become more mature and ready for the real world and not a so-called fantasy world that I was living in. Without my dad passing from cancer I don't know how well I would be able to face adversity, and now that he is gone I am finding myself ready for all the challenges that will come in life. I found that team work and having a team is crucial when facing adversity. My family are my teammates, it reminded me that you are never alone in life, and that I have people that can help me no matter how dreadful things may get. My dad had been preparing me for that moment my whole life, I just did not realize it. Cancer taught me many life lessons, and how to overcome adversity was one. It is a terrible disease, but it is full of lessons that are needed.

Cancer is not so bad “Adversity is just a change that we have not adapted ourselves to.” "Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." ~Joshua J. Marine Cancer has killed many people in the world, but it is not so bad after all. We rushed up to the hospital in Temple Texas with the sign of fright on our faces. While my dad was already in there from the night before. Me, my mom and my younger brother went up to the last floor of the gigantic hospital. Walking into the hospital room I could tell something was wrong with my dad, his face looked green. He had very abnormal bruises up and down his body. “The blood labs came back last night and we have some pretty bad news, Mr. Webber, you have leukemia.” My dad had been diagnosed with ALL- acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Before this news I had been living in a fantasy world, nothing bad in my life had happened, the worst thing I had to deal with was losing a baseball state championship game. I knew right when I heard the doctor say those words my life would change forever, and it did. My dad battled this terrible disease for two years, being in and out of the hospital, and me not seeing him that much. Through all of this I had to learn how to do real life things like mowing the lawn, learn how to fix things around the house, all being jobs that my dad would do but he was not there to do it because I was now the man of the house. After fighting cancer for two years my dad ended up getting this awful infection that started in his throat and would eventually work its way up to his head, and he had no white blood cells to fight off this infection. The doctor told him that he had one week to live, so he decided to come home to die at his home around his loved ones. He lasted eight days and passed on August fourteenth twenty-twenty with his teammates by his side. This was really hard for me with how close I was to my dad, but then I really had to sit down and think about what all happened. I realized that this was supposed to happen, that I was meant to go through such a hard time. I registered that cancer is not so bad after all because it taught me what the real world is, and it made me become more mature and ready for the real world and not a so-called fantasy world that I was living in. Without my dad passing from cancer I don't know how well I would be able to face adversity, and now that he is gone I am finding myself ready for all the challenges that will come in life. I found that team work and having a team is crucial when facing adversity. My family are my teammates, it reminded me that you are never alone in life, and that I have people that can help me no matter how dreadful things may get. My dad had been preparing me for that moment my whole life, I just did not realize it. Cancer taught me many life lessons, and how to overcome adversity was one. It is a terrible disease, but it is full of lessons that are needed.