Thoughts about the Express

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Today, I saw the movie, The Express, which is based on the Ernie Davis story.  It was a very wonderful movie and showed the life of an inspirational man.  Unfortunately a form of cancer called leukemia cut short his life.  His life seemed like it had so much hope and potential.  He succeeded in very difficult times. His short life affected so many people. It seemed so unfair that leukemia cut this young man’s life short.

 

This movie got me thinking about really how much cancer has stolen from the human race. How much potential has been lost because of this terrible disease over the last 100 years? How many children with incredible potential to change this world have died because of childhood cancer? How many mothers and fathers have died before they have been able to see their children raised? How many grandfathers and grandmothers have been taken away from their families before having the chance to influence their grandchildren and point them in the right direction?  I wonder how many scientists, mathematicians, nurses, doctors and priests have been taken from the human race because of cancer?  Has cancer taken the life of the scientist or doctor that would have discovered the cure? We will never know. There is not a more dreaded disease that takes more human potential and snuffs it out than cancer.

 

Those of us who work in this field on an everyday basis are awed by the patients that we treat, and we are scared for them. We are amazed by their courage. We miss them when they are gone and we grieve for them when they are gone. Their struggles remind us how fragile life is.  As a collective human society, we have lost so many people and so much potential to this disease.  Cancer has cut short so many lives and has caused so much grief in this world. I wonder if we will ever see the day where it is no longer a part of our world. It would be an amazing day and the world would be an incredibly better place if cancer was gone from this world. I pray every day that cancer fades into the past.

 

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