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Show a What cancer can and cant do So many people in our county have been touched by cancer in one way or another. And during my experience with my dads cancer and now with own cancer I my have learned there are many things that cancer can do... but many more things that it cant Cancer can make the doctors remove your stomach. It can leave a scar down your abdomen. It makes the doctors poison your body with chemo-cocktai- ls that burn your veins like fire. It can make all your food taste like metal so that you deplore eating. It can make you go bald. It can make them prick you and poke and insert tubes in your chest and IVs in your arms and draw blood from you until you feel like a human pin cushion. It can make it so you have no dignity left as you parade around half naked, half sick, and only half aware of the time that goes by. It can make it so that you ache everywhere and all the time. Cancer can make it so that you need help to go to the bathroom. It can make you nauseated all day long. It can make you lose weight It can make you drink barium which makes you want to puke. It can make you vomit so hard that it physically hurts. It can maim your body as the doctors remove a breast, testicle, lung or peculiar shaped mole. It can make you so weak that laying MOTOR PARTS ACE HARDWARE The holidays bring us the opportunity to wish our valued customers the very best that the season can bring... peace and Joy and the special closeness of family and wonderful friends. It is our wish for you that 2002 brings you and your family health, hope, and happiness. Thanks to our customers for making this a great year.' r Kay & Laura Randall 435-587-22- 86 64 South Main Monticello on the couch is exhausting and you wonder if the cure is not worse than the disease. Cancer can make people too nervous to talk to you because they dont knew how to express how they feel or they are scared to see their face in the THE SAN JUAN RECORD Wednesday, December 19, 2001 - Pagt 13 from fluffing their feathers in the tree. Cancer cant wipe the smile from your that basketto learned the spin just ball on his finger. It cant take mirror of mortality. It can away the excitement of winmake grown men ay with fear ning the state football chamand uncertainty. It can make pionship. It cant make a teenchildren orphans and widows ager think that getting a date lovers. It can tear is not the most important of g and re- thing to do today. Itcanttake dreams ofvacations up tirement like shredding paper away the love you feel from for a fire. It can, your family and friends. It cant stop given time even end your earthly life. strangers from writBut most imporing to you, wishing what have I is tantly you well, praying for learned that cancer you and sharing can't do. Cancer their stories of hurt, cant kill the love bepain, and sickness. tween two people. It It cant stop kindcant stop the love ness from people that flows from a that are eager to tender touch of a help. It cant stop hand between wife the war in Afghaniand husband or stan. It cant bring mother and son. It my dad back, but it cant stop the tears makes me closer to of love from a spouse him, because now I when you both realreally feel his pain. ize what the doctor just said. It cant bring my brother back; It cant take away the smile of but it can make me grateful a child. It cant pen up the en- that I was given time to tell my ergy and hope that children too kind and loving wife how have. It cant stifle the laugh- dear she is to me. Itcanttake ter when I read the letters away my chance to wake up from a third grade class that every day and cuddle up with wrote to the CaveGuy and my too kind and loving wife asked questions like, Where and breathe on her neck until did they put your stomach? she wakes up and tell her, Can you bring it to school and Honey, I still love you and show us? Do you have to use a miss you already. It cant stop wheelchair now?" me from waking up every Cancer cant take away your morning and thanking God that I have yet another day to dog wagging his tail and lickface and ing your hopping try and get it right, spend time around every time you come with my kids, and try and do home. It cant make your cat just one kind deed. And most importantly at pay any more attention to you than before you had cancer. It this time of year I have learned cant stop the world. Itdoesnt that cancer cant take away make cooking, doing dishes, the true meaning of Christvacuuming, and doing the mas. Cancer cant take away wash go away. It cant take the birth of a child in a manaway the feelings of peace that ger far away in a time long calmed your soul when hun- past that offers hope to me todreds of prayers were offered day that I might some day be on your behalf. It cant stop with my Lord and Savior. It the sun from shining and the cant take away the feet that snow from sparkling. It God loved us so much that He doesnt step the wind from sent his only son so that we blowing leaves about or birds might have an exemplar, a life-lon- ten-year-o- ld Savior capable of comforting us through our every fear and all the pain we will ever experience on this earth. It cant take away His perfect love. It cant take away the Christmas spirit of peace and love. Cancer cant take away Christmas carols and neighbors that bring presents by. It cant take away the warmth I feel near the fireplace. It cant take away the love and excitement ofthe perfect present. It cant take away singing my favorite Christmas carols in the shower. It cant take away the warmth of a Christmas letter from long lost friends. It cant take away the love, joy, and pride of an elementary child making a pot holder or clay sculpture for their mom. It cant take away the Christmas bells, the smell of a Christmas tree, fudge, honey candy, cider, gingerbread. It cant take away kids that peek at their presents and sneak a candy every time they walk by the treat bin. It cant take away the excitement of kids when they look out the window at the first real snowstorm nor contain the excitement as they scurry about to find their boots, hats, gloves, and sleds. Cancer can wreak havoc on life; but on the other hand, it doesnt compare to the love, hope, and support of family and friends and the peace and comfort that an all knowing, all loving God has for His children. Really there are so many things that cancer cant do. May God bless you all and give you peace, happiness, and health in the upcoming year with lots of toddlers grimy fingerprints on windows, kids messes to pick up after, football games to watch, friends to wave at and a too kind and loving spouse to wake up next to so you can say, Honey, I still love you and miss you already." Yes, I hope this year is your very best year ever. You can bet it will be mine! As always I can be reached at garytorreshotmail.com ADVANCED AUTOMOTIVE REPAIR We sincerely thank all our customers for their support this year. We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Joyous Holiday Season ADVANCED AUTOMOTIVE REPAIR 533 E CENTRAL MONTICELLO A" Saturday December 22 MonHceHo High School AudHorium Admission $1 |