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I just found out that my neice, my youngest neice, has a "Wilm's Tumor" on her kidney. She had it removed today, and I understand that it went well. Hopefully the cancer has not spread, though they seem to think that it has not. She just turned 1, so this has been very rough on my brother. I wish there was more I could do for them, but my mother is down there so they should be okay. It's just been so stressful in my family: my aunt has cancer and a pacemaker, now my neice has cancer, and it's all just crappy. Sigh. I recognize that it is all illusory, and that sufferring is caused by our own actions, but I'm not a good enough buddhist to find solace in that.
Plus, it reminds me that I'm an uninsured person, so I hope to all the bodhisattvas and arhats that I don't get anything wrong with me, or that ilythia doesn't get anything wrong with her...