From Tyler Sueper...I Believe

"I Believe" Essay Assignment for English Composition Class

The Power of Friends and Family. By, Tyler Sueper

A couple of months ago my mom was diagnosed with cancer. With this disease comes a change in people’s lives. Some changes for the better and some for the worse. With friends and family to comfort my mom in her time of need, even if it was a smile that’s on her face when people come to see her, this gives me hope that my mom will win this fight against cancer. I believe the support of friends and family is the cure for cancer.

Cancer can adjusts a person’s life, even if just the thought of having this disease over their head the whole time. It also can change a person’s lifestyle and their routine. With my mom, her routine changes every week having to go to chemotherapy every other week. The chemo has different side effects on my mom’s body that makes her tired after her treatment and she is also extremely sensitive to cold food, drinks, and weather.

With the hard times come easier and better times. Since the time are family found out the bad news, friends and other family members are the ones that makes it easier, which lightens up the mood of our family. Having friends that care about you and you can always count on helps a great deal to those that are sick. Spending more time with family makes them come together and spend the time they do have with one another.

Without friends and family in anyone’s life would get lonely and boring pretty quickly. For are family, we are fortunate to have a family like we have and friends that are supportive during this time in our family’s life. Getting cards when we first learned of this disease and that continues still months after just shows how my family’s friends and family care by keeping her in their minds.

I believe that the best treatment for cancer is not the chemo, but by being around friends and family. With these changes that are going though our family it’s nice to have the friends that we do. The time that you spend with our family doesn’t go unnoticed, with that I along with my family want say thank you.