xiphias | Things that aren't fair

So, there's a fund raiser dinner tonight at the VFW hall down the street, and I'd have wanted to go if it wasn't Kol Nidre tonight. Not really something you can blow off.

But I wanted to go, and more, I wanted to support the cause, so I just donated the money that two tickets would have cost.

See, Fonzi is the guy who owns the convenience store across the street, and he's a terrific guy. And he has cancer, including a brain tumor (which they think they got out, but he's now doing radiation therapy for that), and stuff in his chest.

He owns the convenience store, which suggests to me that he probably doesn't have great health care. People who own their own small businesses rarely have enough money to pay for things like really GOOD health insurance. And so folks in the neighborhood are throwing a dinner for him.

It sucks. Fonzi is such a wonderful man. When Anna, our upstairs neighbor and

marquisedea's mother was sick, he would extend her credit. She had no money because she couldn't work, and the little she had went to doctor's bills. And Fonzi would just let her get milk and bread and so forth without charging her. So he was responsible for keeping Anna and Sammi fed, some of the time.

And now it sounds like he has something similar to what killed Anna.

It's just not fair.

(No, I'm not worried that there's something environmental causing this. Two similar cancers in the same area in several years does not a pattern make. If a third appears, I'll start thinking about it.)