Out of the blue
Jun. 2nd, 2003 01:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bktheirregularI go down to the borough hall to get my bar exam re-application notarized, and there's a stack of public service announcements like you find in most town halls. One thing and another. Occasionally, a town will have flyers for fundraisers for one of its civil servants who has fallen ill and needs financial support in the hard times.
Today, the plea was: "Help Mikey 'O' Fight Cancer."
Mikey O is a guy I know from back when I first joined the local ambulance corps, fifteen years ago, back before he even became a local cop. Nice guy, always cheerful, the sort you'd trust with your life.
Apparently, he had emergency surgery a few months back, and they found out he had colon cancer. It had spread. Extensively.
He's 36. Four years older than I am. And from what they described, it doesn't sound like he's got good odds of getting much older.
Married, two children.
My dad's 72 and he's got better odds of beating cancer than the Yankees would have against a Little League team, we're told. Mikey O is four years older than me and ...
There's a hundred things I want to say about it, but they'll only get me more and more angry, and I've still got things to do today.
For some of us, life has to continue, even as the sands run out for others.
Close entry.
Today, the plea was: "Help Mikey 'O' Fight Cancer."
Mikey O is a guy I know from back when I first joined the local ambulance corps, fifteen years ago, back before he even became a local cop. Nice guy, always cheerful, the sort you'd trust with your life.
Apparently, he had emergency surgery a few months back, and they found out he had colon cancer. It had spread. Extensively.
He's 36. Four years older than I am. And from what they described, it doesn't sound like he's got good odds of getting much older.
Married, two children.
My dad's 72 and he's got better odds of beating cancer than the Yankees would have against a Little League team, we're told. Mikey O is four years older than me and ...
There's a hundred things I want to say about it, but they'll only get me more and more angry, and I've still got things to do today.
For some of us, life has to continue, even as the sands run out for others.
Close entry.
