{"id":185,"date":"2007-10-17T17:38:01","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T22:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matthewchan.com\/2007\/10\/17\/myleftlungcom-a-womans-journey-with-lung-cancer\/"},"modified":"2007-10-17T17:51:31","modified_gmt":"2007-10-17T22:51:31","slug":"myleftlungcom-a-womans-journey-with-lung-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewchan.com\/?p=185","title":{"rendered":"MyLeftLung.com – Melita’s journey with lung cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>\"Melita<\/a>It is with a great deal of sadness, and perhaps a celebration and opportunity, that my friend Melita Hunt has launched her own personal blog, MyLeftLung.com<\/a>.\u00a0 Unfortunately, it relates to her journey with the recently-discovered lung cancer.<\/p>\n

Melita Hunt is the CEO of Van Tharp\u00a0Institute<\/a>.\u00a0 Van, a man I highly respect, wisely chose her to run his office operations.\u00a0 Unfortunately, I found out a few weeks ago just after my plans to visit Colorado Springs was well under way that she had lung cancer.<\/p>\n

I remember vividly how I got the news.\u00a0 I was up at 3am (as I typically am in the East Coast) and this email from Melita comes through.\u00a0 She was responding to a long overdue “how are you doing” email from me.\u00a0 I had thanked her for introducing me to the seminar I attended in San Diego because it was a wonderful experience.\u00a0 And when I get the response from her, it is so not what I expected.<\/p>\n

I felt like I was punched in the stomach.\u00a0 I have never known anyone directly who had gotten lung cancer and here it was, a young vibrant woman who has contributed to my life in so many subtle (and not so subtle) ways, getting lung cancer.\u00a0 I can say that I thought it was so unfair.\u00a0 She didn’t “deserve” it.\u00a0 (That said, I don’t mean to imply that other people I do not know deserve it either!)<\/p>\n

If there is anyone that can pull through this, I think Melita can.\u00a0 She is of strong mind, heart, and spirit.\u00a0 Behind the scenes, I had long considered having her as co-writer for my blog but it just never came about.\u00a0 But now, I get to happily and with great love and admiration announce and support her new blog, MyLeftLung.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(If you are wondering why she named her blog, MyLeftLung.com, you are not alone.\u00a0 I found out that the name was inspired\u00a0from her “best case scenario” (BCS) \u00a0which was to give up and sacrifice her left lung.\u00a0 Can you imagine that as a “best case scenario”?\u00a0 Alas, BCS will not happen.)<\/p>\n

I regard Melita’s new blog to be a motivational and inspirational one.\u00a0 And so, any of my commentary regarding Melita and her blog will fall under Motivation & Inspiration category because that is what she represents to me.<\/p>\n

I invite you to read Melita’s blog, MyLeftLung.com to get inspired and motivated.\u00a0 I know I will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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