Only Other People Get Cancer
Prior to my hospital admission, I had never been hospitalized. I don't claim to be a superhuman since I get sick now and then, but a visit to a clinic would normally cure my fever, cold, and so on. My other serious illness was during the COVID pandemic (long after my bout with cancer), but even then I was told to quarantine myself at home, and the COVID went away after about 10 days. Before I was diagnosed with blood cancer, I knew very little about cancer. Mainly because no one in my family has had cancer before. My knowledge about cancer was limited to lung cancer, probably because I had a few friends who passed away because of lung cancer. And another reason is that my father died due to a lung infection. Only after I was diagnosed with cancer did I become curious about this disease called cancer and why it killed (and still kills) millions of people, World Health Organisation put the cancer death as 10 millions a year second only to heart attack. I read here and there ab...