Week 4, Storytelling: 'Orange Cancer'

Orange Cancer

(Aloe, Source: Google)

There once was a man named Fitz who had a very strange type of skin cancer that turned his skin orange.  Fitz and his mother lived in the valley with mountains sounding them.  When Fitz was born there were no signs of his skin cancer.   It wasn't until he was six years old that he saw his first orange spot.  After his mother tried over and over again to scrub it off in the bath she knew it must have been a birthmark that had just formed.  It wasn’t until Fitz was eight that he got his second orange spot, but this time it was much bigger.  Fitz’s mother got concerned so she took him to the doctor, but that was no help because the doctor had no clue to why his skin was slowly turning orange.  Fitz went to doctor after doctor searching for an answer to why his skin was turning orange.  By the time Fitz was twelve he had seen nine different doctors, taken hundreds of test, and worst of all almost all of his legs were turned orange.  Fitz was embarrassed of his orange skin, and tried to keep it covered as much as possible.  He only wore jeans so that his orange legs stayed covered, and wore all long sleeves shirts once his arms started to become more orange.  Fitz hated wearing so many clothes just to cover up his skin, sometimes it was extremely hot outside and he still wore clothes to cover his skin. On Fitz’s 15^th birthday he got a call from a doctor saying he knew how to help him.  Fitz and his mother meet with this doctor to find out that there was a cure for him.  The only catch was that the cure was in a special aloe plant at the top of the highest mountain.  With this plant Fitz will have to squeeze out all the aloe and rub it into his skin to cure the cancer. Fitz set out to hike this mountain, and by the time he reached the top his whole body was almost orange, his head was the only thing that hadn’t turned orange. It took Fitz 4 years to climb the highest mountain, but he never gave up, all he had to do was look at his orange skin to motivate him to keep going. Once Fitz reached the top he found the aloe and immediately started rubbing it all over his body, and the orange started to disappear.  It had been 14 years since Fitz got his first orange spot and now he will be orange free for the rest of his life.

Authors Note: In the episodes of PDF Ramayana Rama was sent to exile for 14 years.  Fitz’s fight wasn’t as hard or instance as Rama’s, but he still waited 14 years to find happiness by getting away from his orange skin. 

Bibliography: The source from this story of Public Edition: RamayanaPart D.