-- Posted by jgp5500 at 11:55 pm on May 25, 2008 Hi everyone: I was born with a condition called cystic fibrosis. It affects the body's respiratory and pancreatic functions. Due to CF, I had to have a bilateral lung transplant 8 years ago. I got my life back and became a runner and ran races regularly. Things were great! Now, I have a new challenge, colon cancer. My doctors say that the cancer was not caused by the drugs I take each day to keep my new lungs from rejecting. So, not only do I have to deal with being a transplant patient and the dangers that come with that, now, colon cancer, and the unpredictability of it. I'm a good person. I've never broken a law (except speeding), I've never done anything that would be considered malicious or mean or wrong. I treat people in the way I'd want to be treated. My mother and I co-founded a non-profit foundation that benefits children in the hospital. So am I asking the eternal question: why me? Yes. Why me? I just turned 26 yesterday and have lost out on lots of life to to illness. I'm supposed to be in the prime of my life now. I don't expect anyone to have the answer. I just need some help understanding all of this. -- Posted by bluskypeChris at 11:56 pm on May 25, 2008 Why don't I have any friends and have the most unbelieveable crappy parent ever? I ask the question why me? why me? -- Posted by HXC at 11:56 pm on May 25, 2008 cause there is no god. -- Posted by gief at 11:57 pm on May 25, 2008 i wish i had an answer for you, at least its only your colon right? your tough youll pull through bro. -- Posted by kinkykelsey16 at 11:58 pm on May 25, 2008 wow thats sucky. im sorry :(    *hugs* -- Posted by Fo Sho at 11:58 pm on May 25, 2008 All I can say is "there will be an answer, let it be" -- Posted by Alex2 at 11:59 pm on May 25, 2008 you seem like a very nice and grnerous person, and really you are someone to be looked up at. kinda like Terry Fox (Canadian Guy Ran Across Canada with one leg to raise money for cancer) -- Posted by Another Chance at 12:00 am on May 26, 2008 Yeah non of us will have the answer. Sometimes I wonder why many people got the hands they were dealt. No one knows. Life is mystery. Just live your life as a good man and I'm sure that it would have been worth it in the end. I donno what I'm trying to say. -- Posted by Micus at 12:03 am on May 26, 2008 That certainly is the short side of the stick.   In this life or next, Karma's gonna come back to you. You're going to get rewarded for all this pain in some way, just you see. -- Posted by Another Chance at 12:04 am on May 26, 2008 Quote: from Micus at 12:03 am on May 26, 2008 That certainly is the short side of the stick.   In this life or next, Karma's gonna come back to you. You're going to get rewarded for all this pain in some way, just you see. Yeah, that's what I was trying to say.