Becca wrote:

> One of my nieces is 30 yrs old and she has stage 4 ovarian cancer. She
> has been in and out of the hospital a lot, in the past few months. Her
> body has been holding on to fluid and they are doing all they can to
> help her. It is sad.
>
> A few years ago, I was at the hospital visiting an old high school
> boyfriend who had cancer. His uncle stopped by, and he told his uncle
> that not everybody lives to be old. Unfortunately he was right.

It is a cruel disease. I know a guy who has had Stage four cancer for at
least two years. He seems to be doing very well under the circumstances.
He was well enough last summer that he and his wife were going to go
on vacation. She was all packed and ready to go but had a appointment
with her doctor because she was felling a little run down. The doctor
took her immediately to the hospital. He didn't just send her. He took
her there personally and had her admitted. Tests confirmed that she was
riddled with cancer and they gave her a week at most. She was died four
days later. That was last summer and he is still hanging on.