I’m scared of cancer.
My mother was diagnosed with Colon Cancer several days after her 40th birthday. She had seen the signs of it on her actual birthday, May 9; the day before Mother’s Day and also the day before her father passed away. Can you imagine that? She had one child in middle school, one in second grade, and one in preschool and I remember her holding her composure so well. As children we had no idea she was internally struggling with the possibility of Cancer while also grieving her father’s death. And all in a weekend where we should …read more