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Survivor: Ewing's Family of Tumors

I lay here going through another restless night because of you. For 4 years i fought you until you were finally gone. But little did i know that despite beating you physically, that you would get the better of me emotionally. Night after night now i lay here not sleeping but wondering. Wondering just who iam and what my identity is. I sit up at night and i wonder why i was spared, instead of someone else. You have made me feel as though for 4 years people were only nice to me because of you, andbecause of that you have made it to where im afraid. Im afraid of opening up to people Because they dont understand what ive been through. You have made me afraid of telling the one person. I care about how my feelings are for her because i now wonder at times if she was only nice to me because of you, and in the process, youve made me get so angry at the fact i cant tell or talk to her, that i get angry in front of her to the point where i can sense the fears she has of even being around me and that hurts more then any physical pain you have ever put me through. I only hope that one day i can find a way to make her and others how im feeling and why i feel this way. Cancer im asking, no im pleaing with you to please give me back the person i once was. Let me live a nightmare free life again because im tired of the hold you have taken of me!!!
Oct 22 2016 6:05am |
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