Love in the Time of Cancer - Life, Interrupted
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- čas přidán 10. 07. 2013
- During her yearlong battle with leukemia, Suleika Jaouad's diagnosis has tested and strengthened the growing relationship with her boyfriend, who stuck by her side throughout her treatments.
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Just read her memoir "Between Two Kingdoms", though they eventually broke up, Will - her boyfriend's name in the book still stands as a very passionate and supporting significant figure in her life. I can only praise him.
Just finished reading her book. Seamus/Will, you have my utmost respect; you took care of Suleika for years during her battle against cancer.You have a heart of gold and may God bless you 🩷
I went through this taking care of my wife who died from cancer at the young age of 31
This hits home with me so much
Now I’m fighting cancer 31 years later
Thank God for the supportive wonderful woman in my life
'Between Two Kingdoms' is a great book. Thank you for this video. I finally know who Will is.
So glad to finally see ‘Will’ after reading the book. What wonderful men Suleika attracts!
I am almost done reading it. It’s so well written!! I like seeing the faces of the people she wrote about.
This is an emotionally touching & heartfelt video. I'm so glad that Suleika has a boyfriend & that she is not alone as she battles cancer & has to endure medical treatments. It's much better fighting & battling serious medical issues with someone by your side & not alone. Love gives something happy for people with medical problems to fight & live for. It gives them a focus & goal outside of medical treatment. Seamus is a great guy for loving & caring for her & staying by her side no matter what.
My husband is battling leukemia right now. He isn't going into remission even though he is going through aggressive chemotherapy treatment. It's so hard to see someone you love being robbed of life due to cancer. Now I'm afraid I may be traveling the same journey. May God bless those posting here. I'd appreciate your prayers.....
"Well ain't this awkward." -Jon Batiste
Jon Batiste is Her soul mate whom she just married after a return of the disease and before a SECOND bone marrow transplant.
Who else is currently reading her memoir book between two kingdoms?! 😢 I hope she stays healthy
Sadly last month she wrote on her facebook page that her leukemia has returned after almost a decade being cancer free. She is currently doing chemoterapy and will need a second bone marrow transplant. I still cannot believe it, she looked so healthy. It is really unfair, she is a very good person, beautiful and talented young woman. I was so happy she was cured from that disease and now she is fighting again 😢💔
@@adribelgr5857 yeah I have seen it. Leukemia often comes back once or twice and I believe Suleika is really more stronger than ever and she will go through it successfully. She deserves better and she will back stronger and healthier by the will of God. We have to pray for her though.... May she recover fast and heal forever.. Ameen
@@Ciiyaaraha 🙏🙏
You have no idea how this story hits home with me. My girlfriend had been diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer when she was 35. She has since. Passed on but forever is in my heart. You wish you had a magic wand to wave over someone and make it all go away, but it's not reality. Although I was never married I f feel like I fulfilled al the vows.
Phil Rochat I am sorry😳
So sorry. A lot of guys (and women) would have split. Good on you for being there for her. 🌹
szqsk8 sad part is her father had bypass surgery 2 months before her diagnosis and he went into a coma for 2 months. Has global brain damage so my girlfriend at the tone decided to move back home to help her mother take care of her father
I'm so sorry for you list.
He has a heart of gold. May God bless him 💕💕💕
My girlfriend is 17 years old and she is diagnosed with esophageal cancer and she has been kept in the ventilator from past 3 days ! I have hope!❤🕊and faith in god!🕉✝️☪️☦☸
Touching video, you are very lucky to have a special person in your life to share some of the burden. Although love can't cure cancer, I'm sure it helps tremendously throughout the process. I wish you all the luck in your treatment!
Really touching story beautifully done
great couple, hope things work out for you both. much respect!
My oncologist always asked his patients to shave their heads after the first chemo. People who have never walked the walk sometimes think you are doing it for attention. But it's because the hair falling out is such a perfect analgy for cancer. It happens. But it's messy, it's painful when you do have to pull clumps, it gets in the way and clogs things up. It's a mess. I'm glad I listened and shaved.
I'm glad you're still here with us! Hair will grow back, but YOU can't be replaced. I hope you are doing well now.
Dude. You are the man. My girlfriend was stage 4 metastatic breast cannier for almost 11 ears. ❤and respect to you
She's no more with him
Now with someone most amazing...Jon Batiste
You please be healthy. God should protect all good hearted people.
Watching this after reading her book
beautiful couple.
well. they have both moved on to other relations . Sadly this amazing woman is ill again. Be healthy and be strong with your love John . We pray for you
I live in australia passed 19 years. My mum fell ill overseas and she is facing all hard yards alone while i am realising that i cant just hop in and hop out from plane; i cant plan if i will be able to use my all my leave; whether i will be fired if i cant come back to work after being away for 3 or 6 months. The pain is unbearable.
thank u for your story what a beautiful couple. ...are there any updates?
She said on her Ted talk that they broke up
She’s lucky to have someone like that by her side. I was diagnosed with AML at 28 and I was in a relationship for almost a year by that point, unfortunately I didn’t receive the same support. We tried to make it work but it was hard, like my illness didn’t exist to him. It was often looked over or disregarded…
I hid things well, kept a lot to myself… and I think that made everyone believe I was “ok”.
It’s hard to explain things exactly as I intend then to come across in a summary.
I was diagnosed at 27.
Hello, Great video, my Friend had a cancer too but he doesn't want anybody near him, he is depressed, little bit better with the psychotherapy, what's new about you, please tell me, thanks for sharing
Would you mind if I share this via social media? Your story is mine as well out put on camera. Although different kinds of cancer, cancer is cancer. Please emIl me somehow. Not sure if it will let me post this here because of word limits but I will try. If not I would love to share part of my story with you. Not many people can relate
they are not together now..life!!
I had AML and a bone marrow transplant as well 8 years ago. The guy I was seeing was great until it got yo be too much for him a couple months after the BMT. I had to be isolated for a while and he wanted to go out and do things. I only saw him once a week during my time in the hospital. Cancer can be a lonely disease. And a terrible time to he betrayed.
I had to choose between eggs and embryos as well with my partner of 11 mos. I won't share my election but I think Suleika chose a safe option in that it leaves less social pressure on either partner to remain in the relationship if they wish to leave. Since eggs are each 1 cell, and embryos are over 100-therefore more likely to thaw successfully after freezing- it can be a daunting choice to make. I wish them all luck, love and happiness.
I can't really imagine how could someone leave his girlfriend/boyfriend when he/she faces something like cancer...You didn't felt in love with that person because he/she is healthy...You felt in love because you saw a great person that you could have a wonderful life with...
To be honest,I have never had experience like that but it would be so cruel to beak up with her beacuse she has cancer...
God bless them who are staying by the side of their loved ones....!!!!
Tough place to be in as the healthy partner; in some ways not fair of course.
As someone with cancer and CSF I can understand it. You say a wonderul life, but life is not wonderful when someone is ill and you have to stay at home or in a hospital all the time, have no energy for nothing. Especially when you are young and want to explore the world and have a family.
When I got my diagnosis I was already single, my ex had divorced me 2 years before. And sometimes I think that is better than adding heartbreak on top of the diagnosis. Even with friends, the docs sometimes ask, don't you have any friends that can help. Apart from the fact that I only have a selected number of real friends, and it's hard to care or a freindship when you totally lack the energy to do so, I understand that people have their own lifes too. Some of my friends experience lack of energy themselves, being torn between financial problems (just a normal life has become so expensive with rents rising), family respocibilities and duties at work. When they come home, they are simply tired.
@@skarbuskreska I hear you but if my girlfriend get sick I can't imagine myself run away. I would regret it for the rest of my life. That's my point of view. Yeah, maybe I'm overreacting right now but that would be my behaviour.
That is true. Since that video the two did breakup. Sulieka is married to Jon Batiste and is overcoming a second bout of cancer. And Jon is still with her.
my girlfriend recently got diagnosed with leukemia.. she blocked me on everything told me we need to go our seperate ways and that she wants to be with her family at this time im totaally lost in what to do shes older than me our parents dont approve of this relationship but even as just someone in her life i want to help her
should i reach out idk? i love her a lot
Definitely bro,we can't even imagine the pain she would be going through,be with her at this time and be her support.My gf also suffering from cancer since 10 months,and I can't even think to leave her alone,,Even she blocks me every month,but at the end its not she vs cancer,but its both of us fighting against cancer for our future.Good luck mate.
Where is he now? Hope he doesn’t have to fill guilty leaving. You were only meant to pause with her. God’s PLAN...
She is married to John Batiste now…
This is my story except I quit my job to be by her bedside when the doctors gave her six months to live
Wait - I'm confused. What happened with young Seamus? Are Suleika's parents Moroccan? I know the Jon & Suleika story - where is Seamus??
Her father is from Tunisia, her mother is Swiss. She and Seamus ("Will") in her book broke up several years ago. She reconnected with Jon whom she met when they were teens in band camp. They have been together for 8 years and married in February 2022. Ain't love grand?!😍
Crazy to think this is Suileika 10 years ago 😢 relapsing 10 years later… now she has Jon Batiste at her side ❤
Who is Jon Bastise ? A new partner ?
I would love to connect with you. Your story and my story are very similar. Please feel free to reach out to me.
Im 14 and my boyfriend has cancer and its also hard for me.
Okay and?
My husband is dying
Dawn Hirst so sorry for what's happening to your husband. God bless your family
My boyfriend is dying.... ☹️
My girlfriend is dying too...😢
Its scary i know💔
My husband is dying too. God bless all of you.
I to am dying from cancer
It seems to be everywhere
Sending you all blessings and as much ease and love as possible. To you and your loved ones.
Whatever happens whatever the cards are on the table and if the cancer does claim her This is a real man standing by somebody that he loves and cares about and if you don't think that him staying with her when she has cancer makes him a real man I'll fight you on the corner of the street
Wow, so this is Will eh ?
In one way, she is immensely unfortunate yet in another way….she has found TWO amazing loves in her young life! I am certain her spirit attracts these great loves….but still!
B2K 8/10 😊
These people might not even make it and all they think about kids. Pregnancies can lower immune systems.
I thought she was with Jon Baptiste 🤔
She is. They got married in February 2022. This video is from 2012. Things change.
Oh I see
*Batiste
What happened?
She’s married to Jon Baptise now and has cancer again and the guy in the video i dont know
@@yolandapaulino5952 Oh Thank you; he was her boyfriend when she went through the first bout with cancer; I was just being curious why they broke up, nosy , yes, but the story is now public. He seemed to want to stick it out through her treatment though, that’s why I was wondering.
@@gailalbers1430 I’m not entirely sure if he was around the entire time she had cancer the first time since Jon was also there for part of that experience too
*Batiste
Really? No update but "go follow blog"? Are you that hungry?
its funny why good people always be taken early by God than those evil one
Um, please don't depress yourself, because first of all, she's not dead; and second, that's not really true, is it? It is very sad when cancer interrupts a young life, or any disease or accident. Thankfully it is quite rare, nowadays. Remember that children used to die in infancy in huge numbers, from things like measles, polio, smallpox, whooping cough, typhoid, diphtheria, scarlet fever, and other infectious diseases that were endemic before vaccines were invented, and clean water and public sanitation were not widely available. So God doesn't get them early anywhere near so often as he used to.
Actually i struggled with similar thoughts for a while. But when i read the bible verses in NKJV 1. corinthians 20-28 especially 26: "The last enemy that has to be destroyed is death." i was shocked and relieved.
God gives life, saves and resurrects. Death takes away! Now it makes sense to me and i wonder why this is not preached more. Hopefully this helps even after years. God bless you
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