Sees cancer cells

Jacob waved his tiny hand, and the man turned
toward him.

"Can you heal me?" he asked.

A stricken look came over the man's face, and he
glanced at Anita. She shrugged slightly. Jacob's case
could go either way.

"I wish I could," he said. He glanced at Jacob for a
moment and then said, "It's a problem in your bones,
isn't it?"

The boy nodded.

"I'm not a doctor," the man said. "But it looks like
the bad cells in your body aren't doing so well. That's a
good thing."

"The medicine makes me feel sick," the boy said.

"I'd say you have a pretty good chance." The man
smiled sadly. "If you do what your doctors tell you."
"That's what everybody says," Jacob said.
"That's because they know what they are talking
about." The man tapped his eye. "I can see the bad
cells in your bones, and they don't look very healthy."

That was true enough, although how the man
knew Anita wasn't sure. Unfortunately, his healthy
cells weren't doing much better. Chemotherapy had
been particularly hard on Jacob

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