A Bunion is Small Fry

A lot of people I know are suddenly dealing with scary illnesses. One of my friends has ulcerative colitis, and another was recently hospitalized with an antibiotic-resistant staph infection. A friend who is only my age was just diagnosed with melanoma (which has a 30% survival rate, but hopefully she caught it in time). My other friend's boss was diagnosed in January with uterine cancer, given six months to live, and died last weekend, and I heard today that the security guard who always used to talk to me has a pretty far advanced form of some kind of cancer. It's sad and unsettling to hear.