Protect the Exposed

Cancer is a fatal disease that creates nightmares for everyone. It is a disease when your cells divide into uncontrollable rate. They can get into tissue in your body. They slowly spread through your body through the blood stream. Cancer a battle we are all fighting. Scientist are finding cures while patients and family endure pain and suffering. Thats all we know about the patients. Not their thoughts or fears. The song Skin (Sarabeth) by Rascal Flatts is a song that shows what goes on through a cancer patients mind. I believe we should fight for the cancer patients that go through terror and embarrasment. I think we should support them in every way we can.

We all know that when people first find out they have cancer they are filled with the fear of dying. What we dont know is it isnt because of the pain they will face but the life they will miss out on. In the song there is a line where the band sings "And Sara Beth closes her eyes. She dreams she's dancing Around and around without any cares And her very first love is holding her close And a soft wind is blowing her hair." This line is sung after she finds out that she has cancer. I think because of the key word dreaming she is seeing the life she could have had if it wasnt for the cancer.

Another factor that makes patients "scared to death" because of cancer is the embarrasment they feel they will face due to the fatal disease. In the song it says "Sara Beth is scared to death As she sits holding her mom Cause it would be a mistake for someone to take A girls with no hair to prom." When you get cancer you take a medication called chemotherapy(chemo). This medication cause you to lose your hair.  The line shows that she (Sara Beth)  thinks that she  is abnormal since she has no hair. She also feels embarrassed about having cancer. She could have hidden the fact from everyone by not telling her friends but now everyone can see the effect of chemo.

These are only a few of the suffering that cancer patients endures but there is a way to ease their misery. I think that everyone should support cancer patients in any possible way they can. For example in the song the Sara Beth's first true love shaves his head to make her feel better. "It's quarter to seven, that boy's at the door And her daddy ushers him in And when he takes off his cap They all start to cry Cause this moring where his hair has not all been Softly she touches just skin." This shows that the boy understood that she was going through a lot and yet he wanted her to feel no different than anybody else and therfore shaved his head.

I believe that you dont have to shave your head to show your support. You can do various things. For example you can take part in the Terry Fox run for cancer or just donate money for cancer reasearch. But the important thing is you have helped. I think cancer is a battle we should all fight because of the patients that cry about the life they cant have and they scream from the embarrasment. Help the patients get through this by supporting them.