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spectre · 05-27-2005, 08:05 PM

The one good thing that comes out of these situations is that you find who your true friends are.

I've never told this on the board before, but I feel that it's about time that I did. I had just turned 15, and was diagnosed with cancer. I was given 50/50 odds on survival, and they told me that if I did live through it, I would be a quadriplegic. All four friends knew about this, two were there for me through all of the surgeries, complications, and all of the other crap that went along with the treatments. The other two never called or did anything that showed any concern whatsoever. The funny thing is, I've never been bitter about any of the events of the illness or any of the problems that have been caused by it, but this experience is the one thing that I've been truly angry about.

I learned one important lesson from this, if you have friends that are there for you for anything, make sure that appreciate how good those friends truly are. As for the others, cut them loose or keep them at a distance, they're not worth the headaches.

05-27-2005, 08:05 PM	#17 (permalink)
spectre Junkie	The one good thing that comes out of these situations is that you find who your true friends are. I've never told this on the board before, but I feel that it's about time that I did. I had just turned 15, and was diagnosed with cancer. I was given 50/50 odds on survival, and they told me that if I did live through it, I would be a quadriplegic. All four friends knew about this, two were there for me through all of the surgeries, complications, and all of the other crap that went along with the treatments. The other two never called or did anything that showed any concern whatsoever. The funny thing is, I've never been bitter about any of the events of the illness or any of the problems that have been caused by it, but this experience is the one thing that I've been truly angry about. I learned one important lesson from this, if you have friends that are there for you for anything, make sure that appreciate how good those friends truly are. As for the others, cut them loose or keep them at a distance, they're not worth the headaches. __________________ "Fuck these chains No goddamn slave I will be different" ~ Machine Head Last edited by spectre; 05-27-2005 at 08:08 PM..