What I hear: Chevelle - The Red

Ahhh, that feels better, getting all my work done.

OK, now I'll post.
I know some of you know this already, but my aunt, my mom's sister was diagnosed with cancer a few months ago, and she had surgery to get rid of it, and she is believed to be getting better now, but they have to do tests soon to find out for sure. That situation is getting better.
Her surgery was on Tuesday, and she is recovering now. On Friday, my uncle mike, who is my mom's brother, went to the hospital because he was feeling weak. After doing a blood test, the doctor came in and informed him that he has lucemia... cancer of the blood. Obviously this was a huge blow to my family. My mom and nana have been in tears on and off since that time.
The doctor said basically that he thought he should be dead already, and he had a 0% chance of living without a bone marrow injection.
He doesn't have insurance, though, so they gave him a few pints of blood (he had about 1/3 of what a normal person does) and sent him home. Today he went to Cook County Hospital and the doctors confirmed that it most likely is Lukemia, and he will have to be admitted for about 5 weeks. Hopefully. He is getting tested tomorrow for the bone marrow, then my mom and dad and my mom's brother and nana are all going to get tested to see if they match. Hopefully someone will.
It's such a weird situation. For the first years of my life Uncle Mike and I, who are only about 13 years apart, were raised as brothers. We lived together for a while, and were always very close. It seems so unreal to me that he could very possibly die at any time. Whenever I talk about it with my mom, I can see that she wants to cry, so I have to comfort her, as well as keep myself composed. Between her sister and brother both getting cancer so close together, it must be killing my mom on the inside. I can't say that I would be nearly as strong as she is. I guess all we can do is pray. I know that God uses everything for the good of His Kingdom... and I hope that something really great comes out of this situation.