Dealing with life without the important people

Life is not a piece of cake, it is full of obstacles on the way. Those of us who have to live with health problems know exactly what I have in mind. We gathered here at HealthTalk to talk about our lives, our daily struggles and how we deal with them. Most of us here, tell about their own problems, however there are some who come here to tell about their close ones health problems. One of such people was Donna Gregory, she was a really optimistic and enthusiastic woman. She shared her husband’s story. Told us about his illness and how it would affect both of them. They were still a young couple, and had two children, Bobby and Amanda, 4-year-old twins. Donna told us how her husband’s chronic lymphocytic leukemia affected their lives day by day. She was very honest and open with us, mentioning how the incoming illness changed their marriage and life overall. While they had to deal with cancer, many of us fight our own battles, some may be easier, while others much harder. This battle we have to win, it’s a battle over our lives. Sometimes an unexpected event happens. Such was in Donna’s case, a tragedy occurred when noone expected it.
A plane crash has claimed the lives of Bob and Donna Gregory as well as the pilot, Joseph Baker. It was really tragic coincidence. According to Donna’s mother, the couple flew to Boston for Bob’s check-up. Bob’s cancer was in remission, he was finally able to live more normal. He could go back to his job as a service manager at a Long Island marina, this meant really a lot because the disease made him unable to work for several years. Having problems with money and with Bob’s health, was hard for them. However, you could ask anyone who knew Donna, they would tell you that she wasn’t defeated by these problems. She faced them everyday, she couldn’t leave Bob on his own, he was her husband after all, and she took care of his like a good wife.
It is really painful for many to hear that young people die. We are reminded that noone can live forever, we are all mortal. It’s like a reminder that our time will come as well. We may not know when, but it will come eventually. We have to live our lives as they could be one of the last ones we have, do not leave unfinished businesses and have no regrets about life.
It doesn’t matter if you’re perfectly healthy or have a serious disease, you can’t know what the life has planned for you, if you’ll live another 10 years or be gone the next morning. You can’t predict if you’re going to have an accident. There are lots of events that you’d call „unfair.” But that is a part of life. The pilot that died in the plane crash was a World War II veteran, he served at a submarine during the war and lived through all of that just to die in a plane crash. When I was still in collage, the daughter of our collage president died when the car they were riding in hit a tree. The daughter died, while the others lived. Life seems unjust, unfortunately we can’t do anything to change it.
Life is harsh, we struggle to learn new things, to age and to win with the obstacles of everyday life. We have to fight with our weaknesses, not to be beaten by depression. We can do many things to take hold of our lives, we learn about our illness, visit doctors, go to physical therapy and try to improve our conditions. We have to take all there is to take from live and use it to the fullest. Even in the worse times we got to keep looking forward to life, just like Donna Gregory.

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