As you read this, as I try to write this, my heart has sank into a pool of sadness. The words lost to grief. The
anger chewing at the sinewy edge of cancer's deadly shadow. Cancer sucks. Cancer kills. Cancer killed Amanda's husband,
Eric Shaffer, 25, on Friday evening. Cancer kills the very young, the very elderly, and all ages of people in between
birth and death. Cancer is not an old people's disease. Amanda was trying to raise awareness about the realities of
young adults living with cancer in her blog, cancer. it's not just an
astrological sign anymore. Amanda has lost the love of her life, and she has no more words now, to say anything
about cancer. Cancer crept out from the corners of darkness, and stole her future.The cancer blogging community is a small one, in contrast to the blogging community as a whole. We get to know each other, to care for each other, to lift each other up, to encourage each other to keep going, when the going gets tough. Amanda and Eric were married for two years, although they had been together for eight years. During their time together, Eric had two occurrences of acute lymphocytic leukemia. Last month, Eric was thought to be in remission. Last week, he got ill very quickly, and was taken to the hospital. Just when they thought, maybe, just maybe, they were on the other side of his cancer, they were told Eric's cancer was back. Now he is gone. Too soon, too suddenly, too young, too young, too young to go.
