My world came tumbling down

I SAT alone in the darkened room, the TV images illuminating the x-ray I grasped in my hands.

Nothing could break the hold this shadowy image held over me. I was transfixed with the snapshot of the sinister growth spreading across my chest.

I forced myself to refocus my stare through the grey film to watch the south tower of the World Trade Center falling. It was September 11, 2001. America was under attack.