Day 277: 5 Minute Freewrite: Monday - Prompt: cancer

Cancer. Cancer is a term that seems to have become normally heard around us nowadays. I am sure in our family and friends network, there are a few whom we know might have been a cancer patient or a cancer survivor.

My dad is actually a cancer survivor. He was detected with throat cancer about 17 years ago. Early stage detection. Really lucky. He was a heavy smoker in his early days. But he quit smoking when me and brother were still kids. He said he was in the unlucky group because many of his smoker friends didn't have to go through the pain and torture of cancer. But then the lucky part is he went to see doctors when he was not feeling well. The first doctor didn't suspect cancer. But my dad insisted something was not right. So he went to another doctor to get a second opinion.

It's not easy when we have a patient in the family. I was not staying at home that time as I was away studying. My dad is really a fighter. I remembered him saying "Yes, I am sick. But don't treat me as a patient. Just treat me as a normal person. I don't want to be keep reminded that I have cancer." His happy-go-lucky and strong will keep him fighting and fight off cancer.

He is pretty much a meat person. But he did change his diet, not that he is a vegetarian now. He eats more veggie and less carbo, less sugar, less salt and less oil. He still loves to eat meat but he will control himself. He has better stamina than me because he has been playing golf for many many years now.

So, in conclusion, even though we are sick, our emotion and mind is still very important. Think POSITIVE. Spread LOVE, JOY and SMILE!

An Apple A Day Keeps The Doctors Away... So here's a selfie to this prompt... I think I am being addicted to the selfie freewrite... LOL...

Also having salad is a healthy diet too. The salad shown on top is @khimgoh's salad. Yup... Me, @khimgoh, @joannewong and @aaronleang went for salad some time ago.

And below are more salad that I have had...

Japanese salad I had together with my husband

Naughty Nuri's Lavender Crispy Porky Salad

Food always cheers me up... And I think food cheers many people too... So let's eat balance, think balance, and live balance life!

Thank you for your love and support! 💖❤️💗💕♨️🐳

If you know nothing about this cool 5-Minute Freewrite Daily Challenge, you should check out @mariannewest's introduction post to this cool challenge by @mariannewest and @improv.

And as usual, I love to take this freewrite challenge together with the most dangerous writing app . Just set the timer for 5 minutes, and then just write. ALERT! Don't stop and think for more than 3 seconds! WHY? Coz if you stop typing for 3 seconds, all your words will vanish! YES, everything you have typed will be gone.

If you think you can't write, please STOP thinking. Just GO FOR IT! Maybe you can take a look at my first freewrite post. It's a disaster, everytime I read it, I ended up laughing. Freewrite is about having FUN too! So writer or not, (I know I am not really a professional writer), we all can have FUN coming up with creative little ideas and thoughts with this Freewrite daily prompt! What are you waiting for? Go WRITE your first freewrite NOW! Have FUN!

Image credits to @littlenewthings, @sireh and @skyleap

If you like the idea of CREATE and EARN (just like here in Steemit), then do you know that everyday while we connect with our family and friends through chatting, texting, voice and video calling, we can EARN from that too? Click on the image to start EARNING from connecting with your family and friends!

Colorful hearts border is created using paint.net and gifmaker.me.

彩色心的分界线是我用paint.net和gifmaker.me做的。

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Sndbox
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Qurator
MyJuniors
The Freewrite House

I am also one of the proud members of @ladiesofasia

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