Blog 1; Free Response
Jesse Hourigan, one of my best
friends, was diagnosed with leukemia last December. Leukemia is a cancer of the blood or bone
marrow. It affects anything and
everything in your body once it spreads.
It is an extremely harmful disease.
I met
Jesse about 5 or 6 years ago. After
moving from Colorado, he settled in my neighborhood. He moved in right across the road from me;
this caused us to cross paths at an instant.
We saw him, his mother, his father, and his sister unpacking boxes out
of the huge moving truck. Soon neighbors
were piled around helping pull boxes out, spread them throughout the house, and
start organizing. My brother and I went
over there to help and from that day forward, our lives changed.
Jesse
was always so mean to me when we first met.
He made fun of me, would not want me to be around him, and did not want
me in his room. This changed in later
years to come. Jesse became not only a
best friend to me, but a brother at heart.
He always took care of me at school, he always made sure that I was
doing the right things, and always made sure that no guys were trying to touch
me. He was protective, but it showed
that he truly did care. I will never
forget this about him.
Now
that leukemia has taken over Jesse’s life, it hurts to see him the way that he
is. I’ve always seen him as a strong
fighter; a fighter that could do anything; almost like a superhero. Now that he is incapable of all his old ways,
you can tell that he is getting weaker and weaker. Life is starting to take a toll and slow
down. He continues to fight, but
physically, he is too weak. We do
continue to hope and pray that Jesse gets better, although seconds are getting
shorter.
Seeing
everything that Jesse has been through and still going through is
eye-opening. It shows not to take
anything for granted and to enjoy everything because nothing ever stays
forever. I continue to pray that Jesse
will get better. From here on, we have
to trust in God because he has a plan for each and every one of us. Not only is Jesse my best friend, he is my
hero.
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