54 Paper Cranes

Bad news....my aunt got diagnosed with a pancreatic cancer and only has about 4 months to live...Have any of you read Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes? If you haven't, I recommend it, it's a very sweet book. It's about Sadako who gets leukemia from the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima, and she attempts to fold 1000 paper cranes before her death. So my family and I are going to fold 1000 paper cranes and send them to her. So far, we've folded 54 paper cranes. In a way I'm not doing this just for her, I'm doing it for my Uncle who died 3 years ago from cancer as well. He was an amazing guy and he taught me so many things, he was like my second father. I regret not being able to do anything for him, regretful that the year before I shaved my head for cancer, but I didn't do it again for him. He was not living a comfortable life, and he suffered alot. I am regretful that I didn't talk to him as much as I used too because he seemed to fragile. I remember as he was getting worse and worse, how I didn't want to see him anymore because he was suffering so much, but I did go and see him as often as I could. I regret that I didn't say what I wanted to say to him before he died. So now I'm folding paper cranes for him as well as my aunt. I hope they will bring luck to her, since this is really all I can do, I'm going to do it whole-heartedly. I'm not going to stop folding until I reach 1000 cranes.