Deadly Disease

We all get sick, sometimes more than usual. Sometimes it feels like it’s the end like we’re going to die just now. Right as the next sneeze, it’s finished. All over for me. Sometimes people say what doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger. But what if it’s taking over. Taking over everything within us, about us, our thoughts, body feelings.

Getting sick when you want to work is the worst because you stop it, either of them, you cannot stop work and you can stop your health from getting worse, so you just push it to the edge until you can’t take it any more than a few meds and its all okay in a weeks’ time. That wasn’t the case for David. He didn’t just have a headache or a common cold, it may have started with that, but it ended up being much more.

It was just after his 22nd birthday, he had the best party of his life. For someone who did not party much this was of great joy to him. He felt that he’d finally reached a few goals in life. He was finishing college with amazing grades, he was a d1 athlete. His name was known state-wide, the best quarterback in town. His future was bright and laid out in a platter in Infront of him. That morning when he woke he’d thought he would feel alive and ready to conquer but that wasn’t the case.

He had the most terrible headache, his head hurt so hard it felt like someone was squeezing it in together. Closing the walls around his head breaking it in. collapsing on itself. He couldn’t feel his face and he knew it wasn’t just a hangover. His nose was blocked. His ears are blocked; he is eyes water. He felt as if his face was spreading and expanding. His roommate was concerned so he took him to the emergency room.

They took him into the hospital to conduct a few scans, they found something they couldn’t really understand. He had cancer growing inside his brain. But it did not behave or look like anything they had heard before. It wasn’t growing but it was spreading, it was going to each part of his body, it had already reached his neck. The doctors said it was getting a bit late and he could not be saved. But they had to try.

So, they took him to the basement operation theatre with the chemotherapy centre. they operated for hours, chemo after chemo, injection after injection, scan after scan. But nothing seems to stop cancer from spreading throughout his body. He was just a diseased body minutes away from dying. But was he the only one dying? no, he wasn’t. The doctors decided that the only choice they had was to kill him.

They needed state permission but didn’t believe it was necessary, so the doctor went to slit David’s throat and let him bleed out, but cancer got on his hand and it was bursting through the cut. It was like a fountain of cancer. Slowly it grew faster, it got bigger. Then boom. The doctor blew up. Everything around him in pieces and bits. Then one more boom David blew up even bigger. The entire hospital was falling in.

Each person in contact with the cancer was blowing up. Slowly the earth was just a bunch of explosions. And it all ended starting with a boy whose future was brighter than he expected.