by Mario Miranda Jr.

Created on: July 13, 2008   Last Updated: November 16, 2010

In my own experience: it is good to have a large group of friends.
It was a few years ago and I was younger and did not expected what life gave to me. My family and I lived in a beautiful house into a quite neighborhood near a park where my kids Sarah and John used to play. But one afternoon in those days when the winter's rains start falling a phone call from my wife's doctor office changed our lives "the diagnostic :cervical cancer", a big tumor was raising inside her body.Then every thing started flying down, our ship that looked unsinkable started sinking.

I was the kind of person that thought that having an small group of friends is better because every person is a world it result that you have to learn how to combine each one with their own characters,and it is embarrassing for me, an it was the point where things started going bad. We started our battle against the cancer a complicated process with chemotherapy and radiation twice a week then the surgical process and after that another cycle of radiations and we were almost along and she needed my support during the treatment,our friends were basically our family members.

Like every natural and physical process this action cause a reaction and it could not be worst.I lost my job they did not understand my situation ,they just wanted production then it was turn from a critical to a dramatic situation; sometimes i thought "i most be dreaming, I will wake up and every thing is going to be alright", but not it was real .

At this point a domino's effect became, i started using the money from my saving account while I was looking for a new job that supported my limitations; a bankruptcy situation began. We lost our beautiful house in the quite neighborhood and landed in my parents house, my wife fighting against her illness, our kids and me living in a small bedroom.

Thank God my parents were strong enough and helped us during this horrible situation. Right now my wife is ok, we bought another house with a beautiful view to a lake and we have a big group of people around us ;now i am not afraid in how to treat the others I am pleasant of know more and more persons to share everything the goods ,regular and bad moments;since these hard times I have shakes a lot of hands and i have made a lot of friends like you and I hope if you think different change your mind because in moments like this you need a friend's shoulder to put your tears .That is what friends are for.

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