A Sad Start

I'm starting this blog 2 days after my aunt(my father's younger sister) passed away. She was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer on Jan.27,09 - April 28,09. Fighting with her disease for 3 months. She didn't want to undergo chemotherapy because of all the side effects it cost, in addition she heard many patients who underwent the therapy and had bad results so she picked radiation instead of chemotherapy. She took many alternative medicines and underwent radiation session but didn't finished it. Not long her condition worsened and was transfered to ICU(Intensive Care Unit) for 3 days before she went away. My dad flew from Mindoro and reached the hospital April 28,09 (morning). There's something in the way dad entered the room that suddenly brought tears to my eyes, maybe it was the lowering of head after seeing my aunt being supported by so many "life support" machines. The worst thing in these three months is seeing her gradually being weakened by cancer. Honestly I never expected anything like this would happen, cancer is constantly being used in drama movies but it did happen.