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A Letter To Cancer

Cancer, I hate you. You show no mercy. You show no remorse. You do not care about gender, age, or ethnicity.

Luz Ruiz

Jul 18, 2016

University of Northern Colorado

119

Cancer,

I despise you. I've never hated anything more in my life. Words cannot express the hate and anger I feel towards you! You don't just hurt the people whose body you enter but you also hurt their loved ones. Cancer, I hate you! You took my grandmother three years ago and now you're hurting my other grandmother.

Cancer, three years ago the battle between you and my grandmother came to an end. That battle went on for 15 years! Yes, you were hurting us for 15 years! I grew up seeing my grandma going through chemotherapy and losing her hair. I grew up wondering why my grandmother only had one breast. I hate how you were apart of my childhood, teenage years, and now in my adulthood. She put up with you for 15 years! Three years ago you spread through her body in a blink of an eye. You slowly took over her body to the point where she was completely dependent on others. Do you know how hard it was to see such a strong, independent woman go to being completely dependent? You slowly took her away from us. Three years later we are still hurting. Because of you she did not attend my high school graduation an she will not attend my college graduation or wedding!

You've been in my life since I was a little girl and you keep haunting me. Now you're in my other grandmother and she's trying her best to win this battle. When will enough be enough? Why do you keep coming into my life? Why do you keep hurting the people I love the most? I grew up with you and now that I am 19 years old it seems like I cannot get rid of you.

The thing is that I'm not the only one who's been affected by you. What sickens me is that you dare to enter the body of young children! Children who have to learn to fight for their life at a young age. Children are not supposed to have worries. Children should be having play dates not chemotherapy appointments.

Cancer, I hate you. You show no mercy. You show no remorse. You do not care about gender, age, or ethnicity. I just hope one day we find a cure so we can stop you from hurting other people and their families. I do not want more families to go through the hell you put my family and I through. I've been through hell and back with you, yet, you continue to torture me by hurting the people I love.

Cancer, I hate you. Don't think you've won.

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