Non-Fiction Reading Response

 

    I read an article called " Hockey Player: What doesn't kill you..." by Chris Rumble
 It was a story about this guy who found out he had cancer. The article was told from the guys point of view, they didn't say the guys name, so i'll refer to him as Mike.
               Mike said that the strength he found while in the hospital with cancer is what got him through it. He would be visited in the hospital by children who also had cancer and he said that they would get him out of bed, even when he thought he couldn't. He would walk with them and said that they had more courage then he did. At one point his fever spiked and his blood pressure dropped, which is not a good combination for someone with a low immune system, but he kept fighting and eventually those numbers turned around and he walked out of the ICU.
        This article hit home for me, someone in my family just beat the fight with cancer, and judging by how hard it was for the people that were close to her, I can't even imagine how hard it must be to go through that. It must be just so emotionally draining and tough on you, I don't know how anyone could go through that alone. So reading this article brought up personal feelings, and memories.