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vii. Slowly Leaving✴️

vii. Slowly Leaving✴️

"I'm dying," I told my best friend. I had just come home from the fifth doctor's appointment I've been to in three days.

"You have cancer?" Isobel asked. Her voice was weak like she could burst into tears at any point.

"No. I have another issue that is terminal. My heart is failing. It's stopping because it's too tired and I have some condition. I need a heart transplant. But I'm dying soon." I told her.

"But isn't cancer the only disease that is terminal?" Isobel said. My perfectly logical friend who is on track to go to Oxford, didn't understand that I was dying. I just didn't have cancer.

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I lived In the hospital. I was waiting for a heart transplant because my heart was failing and I needed a new one desperately. The hospital tried to make me comfortable, they tried to use medicines that would keep my heart alive. The hospital had already told me that my body would most likely reject my heart and I would die during the surgery.

I was prepared.

I would die. It was just how soon.

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Let my start off by saying: I know cancer is a huge issue. I know that it wrecks families and lives every day. I know multiple people with cancer. I KNOW THIS.

But, I want to use this book/plot to show that there are other terminal diseases and things that can be deadly outside of cancer. On Wattpad, in stories where somebody dies, 4/5 times, it's cancer. And I know that almost everyone is affected by cancer-either a friend, a family member, a classmate-I know. I just want to point out that sometimes, there are other ways to die slowly instead of cancer.

Please do not take this to mean that I don't care about cancer, or that I don't think it's an issue. I do. I just want to show that cancer is not the only terminal disease in this world.

Thanks.

Kristine