But at the same time, there is a part of me that feels "yea, this might be totally random." This is the part that sees a small child battling cancer...if it's a test of faith, why is this small child that basically is too young to fully understand if at all, just what faith is?

IC, if you can think of cells replacing themselves every so often there is bound to be some variations.

I don't see God or anything testing us. Bad things happen to good people and bad people have some incredibly good fortune.

I have been around long enough and heard performing "heart surgery" was playing God. Other surgery was just practicing good medicine.

I heard AID's was God's punishment for homosexuality and needed to be thought of and treated different than other body fluid transmission diseases.

From http://www.drgreene.com/21_1036.html
We know that hepatitis B virus (HBV), human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and cytomegalovirus (CMV) can live in children’s blood, urine, and/or saliva. All of them can be transmitted by blood—blood from an infected individual entering the bloodstream of another. HBV and HIV would be extremely difficult to pass in saliva or urine (because the amount of virus there is so small), but CMV is known to spread both ways, especially in the daycare setting.

So is HIV a curse from God or just another body fluid transmission disease? I tend to see it as another body fluid transmission disease.

I don't want to influence your beliefs. I just want to emphasize some cells fail to replicate in a healthy way.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oncology

My daughter worked for in an oncology dept at a hospital, and yes life sucks sometimes. I saw people be cured/held in remission and some die.

In addition to a good medical team, faith, friends, and an optimistic outlook helps.

Just my opinions IC. From one tundra to another. It's a whole +6f right now. What happened to the almost +70f a couple of weeks ago? \:\(

Lou