#RANDOM: TODAY AN ANGEL GOT HER WINGS: DIEM BROWN, I AM SURE THAT MOST OF YOU ARE UNFAMILIAR WITH THE NAME AND DO NOT HAVE THE SLIGHTEST INCLINATION AS TO WHO SHE IS/WAS. WELL, ALTHOUGH SHE IS SOMEONE WHOM I HAVE NEVER HAD THE PERSONAL OPPORTUNITY TO MEET I HAVE GROWN OVER TIME TO ADMIRE AND DEEPLY RESPECT HER............ AFTER DEALING OR NOT DEALING WITH MY OWN SISTERS BOUT WITH CANCER, I WAS COMPLETELY DEVASTATED. I BEGAN TO ISOLATE MYSELF BECAUSE WHETHER IT BE A FACT OR A RESULT OF MY OWN PERSONAL DELUSIONS, I FELT AS THOUGH PEOPLE WERE TREATING ME AS IF THE TIME LIMITATION ON MY GRIEF HAD EXPIRED, AND I JUST NEEDED TO GET OVER IT AND MOVE ON!!!!! I FELT THAT NO ONE COULD UNDERSTAND THAT NOT ONLY WAS I OVERWHELMED BY THE LOSS OF THE ONLY PERSON ON THIS EARTHLY PLAIN WHOM I COMPLETELY AND EMPHATICALLY TRUSTED, I LOST THE PERSON IN MY LIFE WHO EVER SINCE WE WERE KIDS HAD ALWAYS HAD MY BACK; ALWAYS BEEN MY PROTECTOR, MY ADVOCATOR, AND MY CLOSEST CONFIDANT. I WAS ALSO OVERWHELMED BY THE FEAR OF WHAT IF............. WHAT IF SOMETHING HAPPENS TO ME, WHO AM I GONNA CALL; WHAT IF I HAVE A PROBLEM AND I NEED TO TALK TO SOMEBODY, WHOS GONNA BE THERE FOR ME............. IN MY DARKEST MOMENTS IN 2007, I WAS BLESSED TO COME ACROSS DIEM BROWNS STORY. AND IVE FOLLOWED HER EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEY IN LIFE SINCE THEN. DIEM WAS DIAGNOSED FIRST WITH CANCER {OVARIAN} WHEN SHE WAS 23 YEARS OLD; EVEN AT HER THEN YOUNG AGE I MARVELED AT TENACITY AND HER NON-DEFEATIST ATTITUDE. AFTER HAVING A TOTAL HYSTERECTOMY, CHEMO AND RADIATION, SHE IN HER TRUE SENSE OF DEFIANCE VOWED NEVER TO ACCEPT THE PROSPECT OF DEATH LYING DOWN. SHE FELT AS THOUGH SHE HAD A LIFE WORTH LIVING AND SHE WAS WELLING TO FIGHT FOR IT UNTIL HER LAST BREATH. DIEM WON HER BATTLE WITH OVARIAN CANCER, HOWEVER SHE WAS SUBSEQUENTLY FACED WITH IN HER WORDS, TWO MORE SPEED BUMPS IN HER LIFE JOURNEY. SHE WOULD ULTIMATELY BE DIAGNOSED COLON/STOMACH/ LIVER AND CANCER IN HER LYMPH NODES. HER MOST RECENT BOUT WITH THE DISEASE WAS THIS PAST SEPTEMBER, WHICH LEFT HER HOSPITALIZED UNTIL HER PASSING TODAY SURROUNDED BY FAMILY AND FRIENDS.......... THE THING THAT I FOUND TO BE THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY ABOUT DIEM: RIGHT FROM THE START OF HER JOURNEY SHE REFUSED TO EVER ACCEPT THE POSSIBILITY OF DEFEAT; NOT TO IMPLY THAT SHE WAS BEING DELUSIONAL IN RESPECT OF THE REALITY THAT CANCER COULD OR WOULD BE THE ULTIMATE CAUSE OF HER DEATH, BUT IN HER REFUSAL TO LET CANCER TAKE HER LIFE. THE YOUNG 23 YEAR OLD WITH CANCER DECIDED SHE WAS GOING TO LIVE. IN SPITE OF ANY ROADBLOCKS, HURDLES OR PIT FALLS ALONG THE WAY, SHE WAS GOING TO LIVE EACH AND EVER DAY AS IF IT WERE HER LAST, WITH OUT APOLOGIES NOR REGRETS. SHE ALSO THOUGHT THAT IT WAS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT TO BE OPEN ABOUT EACH AND EVERY STEP OF HER JOURNEY IN ORDER TO PERHAPS LESSEN THE FEARS OF SOMEONE ELSE WHOM MIGHT FIND THEMSELVES FACING SIMILAR CIRCUMSTANCES; GIVING THEM THE ENCOURAGEMENT AND STRENGTH TO LIVE LIFE TO ITS FULLEST, NO MATTER HOW SHORT OR LONG. WE SHOULD ALWAYS APPRECIATE AND LIVE EACH DAY AS IF IT IS OUR LAST, BECAUSE NONE OF US ARE PROMISED TOMORROW............. IN LIFE IF I AM EVER FACE WITH THE CHOICE OF SITTING IT OUT OR LIVING, I HOPE THAT I AM MENTALLY STRONG ENOUGH TO CHOOSE TO DANCE. #LIVE EACH DAY LIKE YOUR DYING. {DIEM BROWN 6/12/82 - 11/14/14} I HOPE YOU DANCE GLADYS KNIGHT****** NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDE; MEANT TO SHOWCASE ARTIST ONLY
Posted on: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 22:42:41 +0000
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