Life Never the Same again.....

My mom was diagnosed with Leukemia on Sunday and we will never be the same. At first she didn't understand because they had just gave her pain medication. She was so distraught from the pain she was feeling nothing registered. Four hours later as her pain medication wore off, I then gently broke it too her again. She looked shock for a moment then she looked at me blankly and said naively, "How did I get that?" That was a hard question to answer my mother. To be honest how do you tell someone who has worked hard all her life and tried to take care of herself how she got leukemia. Was it the environmental toxins she was exposed to as that naive young mother working in a textile factory to feed and support her children, the anhydrous ammonia negligently spilled by the train in our home town the morning we had to flee because the of the gas settling all around us, or was it the remote possibility with the chance in a billion or trillion from the blood transfusion she received a year ago after having had after surgery to save her life could have been contaminated with that one cell able to cause such; you know maybe it's the diet soda she drinks on a daily basis that is suppose to be safe as well. My reply, I didn't and I still don't know how to answer my mothers question. 

     We are taught the things to do to try and prevent cancer, yet it is not in the prevention. It is in the negligent exploiting and greedy money hungry corporations who uncaring destroy the lives of others whom they see as insignificant. How do I tell my mother that. I have no answer for her. 

     An ounce of prevention should be worth a pound of care or so this is the new focus in this world being taught when really it is the negligent people with money in control that is causing this to happen. 

     We work as consumers. We spend our money earned at the price of their negligence and then we turn around and purchase their products produced at the expense of the naive ones. We pay taxes on that money to a government who allows these things to happen just like the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and all the oil that will now for decades contaminate our ocean. Then we when we get sick. It's  that same money earned from those negligent corporations that  is required to pay the medical bills for the illness they caused the innocent consumer to begin with. 

     Honestly, I don't know how to answer my mothers question. I can't tell her that answer. All I know is that now I am going to watch the best friend that I have ever loved in the whole world suffer and give her most precious all for some negligent practice that ......I love you moma and all I can say is that I am sorry!

Ann


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