today's thought for the day

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My mom just got a phone call from her younger brother, my Uncle Rick, who has been battling aggressive cancer for the last 4 years (when he was diagnosed, no one with this type of cancer had ever made it more than a year. He's been blessed with access to the best doctors and specialists in the US). Yesterday they found the cancer has spread to his bowels. Today he's decided that's enough. He's leaving the hospital later today and expects that the end will come fairly soon.

I don't know what much more to write other than that at times like this I really hate being an ocean away from my family.