It has been a while since I have spent some lengthy amount of time on FB like I used to. Have I stopped caring for animals? Hell NO; there is a higher chance that the sun will turn into ice than me turning my back to animals or stop being a vegan. But on December 23rd when my sister was diagnosed with stage 3 .of a very aggressive type of breast cancer, my whole life turned up side down and emotionally I suffered a major crash that I had to handle the best I could all by myself. To make matters worst, on February the grandson of a very dear friend of mine died 3 months after he was diagnosed with a very rare type of cancer. He was a beautiful young man, only 24, he was living his dream of being a firefighter and while at the hospital he was studying to be a lieutenant. During all this mess I had to travel to Venezuela, where I witnessed first hand so much animal suffering. During my time there , all I did was cry every time I had to go out. But what good would I be to my family, my own animals and all the animals I love so dearly if I let myself be crushed by my out of control emotions. So I had to decide to take time off to recover some sanity for the sake of my elderly father who is so worried about my sister; my sister , who has more than enough to deal with and my wonderful brother, who has become our rock, My sister successfully finished her chemo and on July she will undergo surgery and later if necessary she will undergo 6 weeks of radiation. Her last breast MRI was very encouraging, the tumor has reduced considerably and the lymph nodes under her left arm looked normal. My whole family is now 100% vegan . I do believe if you want compassion, you must feel it to and all animals need so desperately our compassion. Recently my sister , who was a vegetarian for years, told me, once you open your eyes everything becomes so clear and it is terrible to see how cruel we could be just because we looked the other way. I am so proud of my family and so very proud of my sister , who has handle her situation with so much dignity . I know chemo was very hard and seeing all your hair fall off is not easy either. But today when we talked on Skype she put her head close to the webcam and I was happy to see her hair is starting to grow. Love and peace to you all
Posted on: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 19:08:30 +0000