An excerpt from Jamie
Lee Connor’s Autobiography
“…
I was about to turn seven that year. The people around me, my parents, my
teacher, my aunts and uncles, all of them thought I couldn’t speak that time.
It’s not true though because I could talk, I was just too shy to speak up.
Given that, the first time I finally mustered the courage to talk was actually
one of the special moments of my life. It kind of changed the world. Well my
friends would say that it is very much an understatement.
You
see, my parents were big shot scientists that focused on the field of oncology
or the study of cancer. They took me to their labs often hoping I would take
interest and be just like them when I grew up. Here’s to hoping, haha! Anyway going
back, that one summer day, August 25, 2025; if I remember correctly it was a
Saturday; started like any normal day. My parents took me to see the lab again
and like usual they just let me wander around while they work on their thing
wearing the cool attire that’s supposed to prevent contamination. Of course,
there were limitations to where I could go to but I was a pretty clever and
mischievous kid so I sneaked into the parts where I wasn’t allowed to
sometimes. As I was trying to discreetly loiter around one of the restricted areas,
I had no idea that what I was about to hear was the talk of the century, the
thing that would change the world. Shocked as I was, I left just as another
doctor said that the information was not to be released in public...
There
was a newly discovered bacteria, the scientific name of which was too
complicated for my 7 year old-self to remember, that made a major development
to cancer research. It mutated from another bacteria that was infected in one
of the laboratory monkeys that was supposedly a subject of numerous
experiments. The bacteria, once inside the host or the body, look for cancer
cells and cling to it. It then transforms the cancer cells to the bacteria
itself and effectively expels out of the body after 36 hours. Downside was that
thirty six hours would most likely have been the worst hours of your life. You
would experience major headaches, nausea, uncontrollable bladder, hair loss and
a lot more side effects but once it is done, the patient will then be
considered cancer free. Those information were the only things the seven year
old me could catch and that is exactly what I told my best friend’s aunt.
To
clarify all things, after I overheard the scientists, I looked for my mom and
motioned that they take me home. They had the driver take me home and the moment I
reached our home, I immediately went to my then best friend. That time I finally
mustered the courage to use my voice and I told her mom everything about the
cure…” and the rest was history!
*this is a fiction piece about cancer
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