Rest Well, My Chemo Buddy

I met Angie at the Cancer Centre sometime back in early 2008. I just had my first round of Zometa and Zoladex regime, and we were introduced by the nurse when Angie wanted to find out more about the regime i was on. We hit it off pretty quickly, exchanged phone numbers and had been in touch since. We often scheduled our chemo sessions about the same time so that we could do lunch after our sessions.

Angie was diagnosed with advanced breast and bone cancer in February 2006. She went through the standard treatment regime of chemotheraphy and radiation. She was starting out on her Zometa infusion when I first met her. Her health condition took a turn for the worse in the last quarter of 2008. The cancer had spread quickly to her liver and lungs, and yet she fought on courageously. During one of our last conversations in January, she told me that she has resigned herself to fate, and that she probably may not be able to see Christmas this year.

Today, I lost another dear friend to the deadly and unpredictable disease. She leaves behing 3 lovely children aged 4 to 11 years old. To those who do not know her, Angie will be a sad statistic, a number to be added and tabulated into graphs and tables, an unknown individual who was unfortuante enough to have caught the disease. To those who know her, she was a bright and beautiful lady with a generous heart and a warm personality.

Angie, you are going be missed.
Rest well in the arms of Jesus