Tuesday, December 13, 2005 @1:07 AM
I’ve heard a lot about the unfortunate stories of cancer patients from a distance. Yesterday, I met one of them. And she doesn’t look like she was suffering from this disease before. Who’s this Wonder-woman?
DV invited NK and I to his house for Sunday lunch. There we met this amazing lady. She’s extremely friendly and energetic. There’s no chill moment during the whole lunch meeting. We didn’t look like we'd just met. She was doing most of the talking, which some of her conversation really cracked me up. We introduced ourselves. After finding out that NK and I are working in the hospital, she immediately told us that a year ago she’s diagnosed cancer. When she mentioned about this, she wasn’t sad, embarrassed or with any pinch of negative emotion. What even more surprised me were the following lines she said.
“Cancer is just a disease. When my doctor announced the diagnosis to me that I had cancer, I didn’t feel too upset. I asked for the therapeutic option and went for one.”
“I even told my physician that it was better news than being told I had Alzheimer.”
After talking to her, I gradually understood the reason that impressed me of what she said earlier. She’s very optimistic and we all could feel her positive energy.
She has two jobs and she loves her jobs. She has her own career and at the same time helping her husband for his company. Though she’s not from this country, she has made a lot of local friends and also international friends and organizes gatherings and outings. Just take yesterday for an example, after our lunch meeting; she had to rush to a gathering with her friends. Then she went to play hockey with her son in the evening. After that she had her night filled with a movie night at home with her family.
She loves to travel. She is really well-traveled and in fact I was impressed that she holds an additional degree in tourism. She loves cooking, though she’s a South American, she is an excellent cook for Chinese and Thailand food. She told us that she actually went for professional cooking class to learn many different international cuisines.
“Life is really short. There is so much that I want to do. So I don’t allow myself to waste time. I want to go around to experience life and to see different things in different places.”
The Mexican lunch was great by itself. Great job DV, for being a fantastic host! But the presence of Wonder-woman had certainly added flavor to the exotic Mexican cuisine and we’ve packed some of that home ( “take aways”). Hope you get some of those from me here too.
♥ every page of my imagination
