Lessons from Cancer

John Ege
6 min readFeb 3, 2021

First up, I don’t have cancer. My best friend is dying of cancer. My favorite uncle died of cancer. I don’t have to have cancer to know it sucks ass. or to be able to relate to it as an illness, or to empathize with folks who have it. I am watching my friend die- on the weekends. I do have to work. His wife is getting the thick of it, and very little help from family.

So, God Bless all those folks that sent them the MealTrain. That really helped them adjust to new life- bedridden spouse, due to paralysis on the right side of the body. We need a new kind of Train- functioning spouse day off- if…

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John Ege

LPC-S, Assistent State Director for MUFON, TX, and father of 1... Discovering the Unseen through Art, Word, Thought, and Mystery.