When Misfortune runs in the family · 9:43pm Nov 15th, 2021
Truly, my family is cursed.
I said all I needed to about my father in my previous blog. There’s nothing new on that front. And again, I don’t like talking about my problems. But I just don’t care at this point. When you need to kick something, you find a wall to yell at before breaking a toe.
What’s worse is that yesterday was a wonderful time. An extravagant fund raising party set up for my father. Exhausting, but a great time. We all needed it.
Then today happens and my mother has us gathered around. A week ago, my mother underwent a biopsy. I didn’t think much of it. Just something one has has to have once in a while like an occasional colonoscopy. But then I find out why it was necessary.
“I have breast cancer.”
It knocked the wind out of me. My father cried. It’s one of those things you think will never happen to you. After such a good weekend, we didn’t need this added to our problems. First my father. And now my mother. Why this?
The only silver lining is this. It is in stage 1. My mother is an old pro in the field of medicine. And a close family friend overcome a bout of breast cancer years ago and has vital information and advice to share.
The worst part was hearing about it. The best part is knowing that the odds are very much in our favor for now. But this has thrown a new wrench of uncertainty into these wretched matters that we did not need.
All I can do is hope.
Geez, that is very rough, dude. Hopefully everything does comes out well in the end though! Because as you said, a close friend overcame it and has advice to give, so it would be like a buddy giving a cheat sheet for an extremely hard test.
Hopefully nobody changes the questions in the test, if you know what I mean.
My best wishes and prayers to you and your family, bud!
I hope your mom is OK.
That is awful, thankfully stage one is, well, stage 1. Catching it early is always key and she will hopefully be okay.
Man, that is such an unnecessary amount of stress in a time that could really use less of it. Luckily though, the prognosis on breast cancer is often good if caught early and swift action is taken. It's far from hopeless at that point. Still though, for whatever it's worth I'm rooting for you.
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I'm so sorry. . . I doubt there's anything I can say or do to help, but I'm hoping with you.