Cancer. The word scares most people. It scares me as well. Being diagnosed with cancer is not a very uncommon thing. 1 in every 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime, but that is not the only kind of cancer that is out there, though it only takes one type to change someones or many peoples life.
When I was 5 years old my father was diagnosed with cancer. Still today they don't no what kind of cancer he had, but they do know that he had a deadly tumor in his neck that was spreading, quickly. My dad is...well lets just say he's old. I remember the day that he told us he had cancer. He called us into his office, he works at home. He had had this band aid on his neck for a couple weeks and I since I was five I really didn't care why. So we're in the office and he takes of his band aid and revealed this big ugly bump. He said that he was sick and that he would have to go away for awhile. One of us asked him why and he said because these people were going to make him better. Then all I really remember is going up to him and saying well it's good their going to make you feel better dady. I don't remember much after that.
There was a one in ten chance that my dad was going to survive and we didn't want to take our chances so he moved into this hospital in London. When my father had cancer I remember mostly the fact that my mom was very very worried and that we kept getting these flowers and fruit baskets. I didn't really understand that my father was really sick and may die any day and I don't think my mother had the heart to tell me because well I was five, so I never really understood it until a couple years latter. I remember one day going to the hospital to visit him. Everything was going fine, we were having a nice little chat and he got a stuffed animal that Carolyn and I were fighting over. Then BOOM, he started to bleed. I was really scared then and asked my mom why he was bleeding though I don't think she answered. We left after that and I didn't go and see him again for awhile, though my mom did.
My dad was very lucky to survive his cancer though his life has been very different ever since. He got a chunk of his neck taken out because that is where the tumor had been located. He lost all taste of food in his mouth for a long time. He did get some of it back but mostly all food is bland. His mouth is also dry all the time. He drinks soda water like it's his life line because it's the only thing that helps. Also everyday for a year he had to drive to London Ontario and back to go for a check up and his medication. I think that that was the worst part for my mom and us. Anyway, now his is almost back to normal and most of the time I never even think about the fact that he had cancer.
My dad is now a seven year survivor of cancer and is very healthily. He even goes running every day with our dog that we got right after he was cured.
Thank you to whoever cured him. Our family would have never been the same without him!!! :D
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Thursday, January 21, 2010
T is for Tim
Many people have brothers. 12 out of the 21 kids in my class have brothers. That's 57.142885714% of us, which is well over half. Most people have brothers a couple years older then them or a couple years younger, give or take a few. My brother is 20 years older then me. His name is Timothy. We call him Tim, well I usually call him Timmy but that's beside the point. He is 32, I think. He may be 31 or 33. Though when your that old, it really doesn't matter, right?
I also have two sisters. Out of all my siblings he is my favorite. That's kind of mean to my sisters, but you haven't meet them before. If you had, you would agree with me. I am the youngest in my family and if you are also the youngest would concur with me that the younger you are then them the meaner the older siblings are to you . My sisters are very mean to me, but Tim isn't. He even beats Carolyn up when shes mean to me, but not actually. I also like Tim more then my sisters because he'll do things with me that Carolyn and Heather won't. For example, there's this video game that we got for Christmas last year called Indiana Jones Lego, and I thought it looked like fun. Carolyn and Heather didn't and I didn't want to play it alone, so when Tim came over I asked him if he would play it with me and he did. We played for an hour and a half. It was lots of fun. That is just some of the reasons that I like Tim better then my sisters.
Okay so you'd think that when you have a brother that is that much older then you they wouldn't really make an effort to be part of the family because well they have their own life, but Tim isn't like that. He makes a huge effort to come and hang out with us. He even attends most of the family gatherings.He try's to come and see me in the winter every weekend because his house is 10 minutes away from my chalet which is awesome! In the summer I don't see him as much though because he lives 2 hours away from us which is a drag, but I guess I see him enough in the winter to make up for it.
My finial reason why I like better then the rest of my siblings is because I don't have to live with him. I'm actually kind of glad for that because for one he is in his thirties and that would just be weired if he was living at home and two I don't want to dislike him like I do my sisters. We would probably get sick of each other too, just like I'm sick of my sisters. That is why I like my brother Tim better then my other siblings!
Oh and Tim, thanks for being a great brother!!! :)
Life Lesson: You can't choose your family so when you get lucky, don't take advantage of it, because it doesn't happen very often.
Okay so you'd think that when you have a brother that is that much older then you they wouldn't really make an effort to be part of the family because well they have their own life, but Tim isn't like that. He makes a huge effort to come and hang out with us. He even attends most of the family gatherings.He try's to come and see me in the winter every weekend because his house is 10 minutes away from my chalet which is awesome! In the summer I don't see him as much though because he lives 2 hours away from us which is a drag, but I guess I see him enough in the winter to make up for it.
My finial reason why I like better then the rest of my siblings is because I don't have to live with him. I'm actually kind of glad for that because for one he is in his thirties and that would just be weired if he was living at home and two I don't want to dislike him like I do my sisters. We would probably get sick of each other too, just like I'm sick of my sisters. That is why I like my brother Tim better then my other siblings!
Oh and Tim, thanks for being a great brother!!! :)
Life Lesson: You can't choose your family so when you get lucky, don't take advantage of it, because it doesn't happen very often.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
E is for Emelie
"OUCH! That HURT,"
Those were Emelie's first words to me on October first in grade six.
"Sorry, Tommy told me it didn't hurt you if I were to punch you." (Tommy was someone Emelie was siting next to at the time). But I didn't punch her that hard.
"Well that one hurt."
"Sorry," I said. I really didn't like her then, but I new I would have to be nice because I would be siting beside her for a while.
Emelie and I are best friends now. She is 12, almost 13. She has one sister and one brother. Her sister, alex, is my sisters age, 15, and her brother, jason, is 7. He is her half brother. Her parents were divorced when she was young and her mother is remarried to her brothers father. I have double what Emelie has. I have two brothers and two sisters. They are all older than me. My brothers are both my half brothers in same as hers. My father was married before he had me and my sisters. After he got a divorce he remarried to my mother. Our families are somewhat similar in that way. Emelie and her sister get along most of the time. My family doean't get along as well. It is really quite appawlling. We fight all the time were as Emelie and her sister are friends. Weird, I know. It is rather odd how comparable our families are and how much they differ from each other at the same time.
Emelie and I know each other very well. Her favorite sport is tennis. She plays volleyball in the winter and did track last year in the spring. My favorite sports are basketball and cross country. I do those in the fall, skiing and volleyball in the winter and track and field in the spring. Emelies favorite colour is pink and mine is yellow. She is really into music and I'm not as much. Take the fact that she has about 400 songs on her iPod and I have about 117. She is quite smart though and so am I, so I guess that we are similar in some ways but most of the time we have a very different opinion about things that we enjoy and don't enjoy.
Emelie and I always have a great time with each other and a good laugh. Emelie is a funny, and crazy person. She can sometimes be mean, but only to me and no one else see's it, but that's okay because its I am just fun and games, not actually seriously mean. Emelie is also smart. I am funny and crazy as well and can be a little bit mean to her sometimes, but like I said its just for laughs. I am pretty smart too. I think we are very similar in the way of personalities.
In the end I think that Emelie and I are very different in very many ways; like our families and things we enjoy, but at the same time I feel as though we are very similar in the way of our personalities. I think that it is okay for people who spend a lot of time with each other, whether its a best friend or husband, to be different because other wise you would agree on everything and that would just be boring. I guess its true what the say "opposites attract."
Life Lesson: Stay away from the people that have a lot a lot of things in common with you.
Those were Emelie's first words to me on October first in grade six.
"Sorry, Tommy told me it didn't hurt you if I were to punch you." (Tommy was someone Emelie was siting next to at the time). But I didn't punch her that hard.
"Well that one hurt."
"Sorry," I said. I really didn't like her then, but I new I would have to be nice because I would be siting beside her for a while.
Emelie and I are best friends now. She is 12, almost 13. She has one sister and one brother. Her sister, alex, is my sisters age, 15, and her brother, jason, is 7. He is her half brother. Her parents were divorced when she was young and her mother is remarried to her brothers father. I have double what Emelie has. I have two brothers and two sisters. They are all older than me. My brothers are both my half brothers in same as hers. My father was married before he had me and my sisters. After he got a divorce he remarried to my mother. Our families are somewhat similar in that way. Emelie and her sister get along most of the time. My family doean't get along as well. It is really quite appawlling. We fight all the time were as Emelie and her sister are friends. Weird, I know. It is rather odd how comparable our families are and how much they differ from each other at the same time.
Emelie and I know each other very well. Her favorite sport is tennis. She plays volleyball in the winter and did track last year in the spring. My favorite sports are basketball and cross country. I do those in the fall, skiing and volleyball in the winter and track and field in the spring. Emelies favorite colour is pink and mine is yellow. She is really into music and I'm not as much. Take the fact that she has about 400 songs on her iPod and I have about 117. She is quite smart though and so am I, so I guess that we are similar in some ways but most of the time we have a very different opinion about things that we enjoy and don't enjoy.
Emelie and I always have a great time with each other and a good laugh. Emelie is a funny, and crazy person. She can sometimes be mean, but only to me and no one else see's it, but that's okay because its I am just fun and games, not actually seriously mean. Emelie is also smart. I am funny and crazy as well and can be a little bit mean to her sometimes, but like I said its just for laughs. I am pretty smart too. I think we are very similar in the way of personalities.
In the end I think that Emelie and I are very different in very many ways; like our families and things we enjoy, but at the same time I feel as though we are very similar in the way of our personalities. I think that it is okay for people who spend a lot of time with each other, whether its a best friend or husband, to be different because other wise you would agree on everything and that would just be boring. I guess its true what the say "opposites attract."
Life Lesson: Stay away from the people that have a lot a lot of things in common with you.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
H is for Home
One morning last year I was finishing something off for school on my mom’s computer. I went to take it down the stairs and guess what, I fell. I didn’t only drop the computer but I hurt my arm and back. The computer was okay and I guess I was too, though it was really painful at the time. That is just one of the many times that I have fallen down the stairs at my own house. There are a lot of stairs at my house and that is third on my list of the top three things I don’t like about my house. The good thing about having lots stairs in your house is that it means your house is pretty big. That’s third on the top three things I like about my house.
My room. That is second on the top three things I don’t like about my house. It isn’t that my room isn’t big, or nice or anything. It’s the fact that I share it with the devil. It wasn’t so bad when we were younger because we didn’t fight as much but now we both loathe it to the extreme. We fight constantly. The only thing good about that is that she isn’t home as often as me so I usually get the room all to myself. Though her stuff is still there. The second thing on my list of things that I like about my house is the fact that it’s so homey. It isn’t always the neatest (My mother doesn’t like that. You should see her when she gets mad at us for the messy house! Its actually kind of menacing.) But it’s home and unquestionably without a doubt one of the best.
Picture nowhere. Then picture the middle and that is where you’ll find me. I live in the middle of nowhere. Seriously, I am not joking. That is where I live. The population is about 33 and that’s counting the place that is technically outside the boundaries of my neighborhood, so really only 28. I live 45 minutes away from the school, Waterloo, and Kitchener. My house is closer to an hour away from Cambridge and Guelph. 1 hour and a half away from Toronto, and that’s if the traffic and weather is good. That is most definitely the #1 thing on the list of the top three things that I dislike the most about my house. The thing that I do like about where my house is located the fact that it is always peaceful, calm, and stunning, especially in the summer. Well it’s always stunning in the summer. You see we live on a lake and people like to go boating there and it can sometimes get pretty crazy, but I don’t mind because those people on the boats remind me that I’m not the only one the planet. That is certainly first on my list of the top three favorite things about my house.
So even though my house had its up and downs I still can't wait to go home some nights because its just so great.
Life Lesson: Avoid sharing a room with sister at all coast!!!
My room. That is second on the top three things I don’t like about my house. It isn’t that my room isn’t big, or nice or anything. It’s the fact that I share it with the devil. It wasn’t so bad when we were younger because we didn’t fight as much but now we both loathe it to the extreme. We fight constantly. The only thing good about that is that she isn’t home as often as me so I usually get the room all to myself. Though her stuff is still there. The second thing on my list of things that I like about my house is the fact that it’s so homey. It isn’t always the neatest (My mother doesn’t like that. You should see her when she gets mad at us for the messy house! Its actually kind of menacing.) But it’s home and unquestionably without a doubt one of the best.
Picture nowhere. Then picture the middle and that is where you’ll find me. I live in the middle of nowhere. Seriously, I am not joking. That is where I live. The population is about 33 and that’s counting the place that is technically outside the boundaries of my neighborhood, so really only 28. I live 45 minutes away from the school, Waterloo, and Kitchener. My house is closer to an hour away from Cambridge and Guelph. 1 hour and a half away from Toronto, and that’s if the traffic and weather is good. That is most definitely the #1 thing on the list of the top three things that I dislike the most about my house. The thing that I do like about where my house is located the fact that it is always peaceful, calm, and stunning, especially in the summer. Well it’s always stunning in the summer. You see we live on a lake and people like to go boating there and it can sometimes get pretty crazy, but I don’t mind because those people on the boats remind me that I’m not the only one the planet. That is certainly first on my list of the top three favorite things about my house.
So even though my house had its up and downs I still can't wait to go home some nights because its just so great.
Life Lesson: Avoid sharing a room with sister at all coast!!!
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