Reply #3: what?

[lldu]

It really hurts when a celebrity is pointed out to be Courageous or Selfless or anything when they have a disease. My wife died this year as a result of cancer. She was just as selfless, just as courageous as anyone else. "You take one day at a time", she would tell me.
She had the courage to go in surgery knowing that she may never wake up, which is exactly what happened. But she went ahead and had the surgery. Why doesn't some tv announcer talk about my wife?

She went to her dr and told him he had to cut her leg off below the knee when it was evident that the bottom of her leg was badly infected and it was advancing up her leg. She went to him and said, "Cut it off right here!", pointing to just below the knee. Within 3 days she had the surgery to do just that.

She had a dodge Ram truck at this time, did it stop her because she had only one leg? No, she used crutches and would go to that truck, open the door, throw in those crutches and then pull her self up into the truck. BTW, she was only 5 feet tall. And it really pissed her off when someone took pity on her. And she would tell them so.

She was quite a woman, but she lost her battle this last April, knowing that she might not even wake up from the surgery. That is COURAGE! I had to tell her goodbye while she lay there after the ventilator had already been turned off, tubes in her body and in her mouth. She knew it could come to this, but she did it anyway.

So, just because some celebrity has a problem, don't give them credit as if they were the only people who could be so courageous. Think of all the people who do this every day and don't get the recognition. Who don't care about recognition. Who just take it "One day at a time".

lldu