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{{opinionarticle}}"One Week" is a song by [[Graham Llewellyn Grove]], composed in 2000. An [http://grahamlgrove.googlepages.com/OneWeek.mp3 MP3 recording of it can be downloaded here].{{rtoc}}===About One Week===
One of the saddest things I have seen, is a young girl being diagnosed with widespread cancer. In the year 2000 I was in my fifth year of medical school, doing a rotation in the oncology department. A young woman, I think her age was 21, had been sent in for further investigation of a neck lump that had grown over the past couple of weeks. Her GP had sent her in, knowing that the likely diagnosis would be lymphoma. He had told her this and the oncologists had further explained to her that if it was a lymphoma, although this was serious, there would probably be a 50% chance of complete cure. I remember seeing the girl that first day with her fiancee and parents. She was obviously worried. I believe her main worry was actually not for herself though - I think she was most concerned about her family and fiancee. Still, it was almost certainly going to be a lymphoma, and there was only a 50% chance of dying from that - so there was some hope. She had the biopsy the next day and waited for the results.....
I wrote this song after watching these events unfold. I still sometimes think of that girl. Was she a Christian? I don't know. Maybe she was, maybe she wasn't. We all die, but none of us expect it to be so young. But I honestly believe, that through Christ we live even though we die.
===Lyrics===
One week can change the world
These seven days, he's wept with you
===Links===
* [http://grahamlgrove.googlepages.com/OneWeek.mp3 MP3 recording of One Week]
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