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None of us will get out alive
Sep. 22nd, 2009 07:11 amHow soon? The reminders are all there.
Recently I spent a week helping T treat the sites where a doctor removed two moles. Not malignant. Since then, I convinced him to let me make full body scan appointments for both of us. That is about three weeks in the future.
Last week (and the week before) I drove 4 hours round trip two non-consecutive days to spend time with B, my college roommate. Nothing like stage 4 colon cancer at our (young) age to snap life into perspective. I washed dishes, did laundry, swept, dusted, played card games with her, drove her on medical and non-medical errands... and talked. I have missed so many last chance conversations with other important-to-me people already, I won't let these go.
Next week she starts chemo.
I am caught between how-could-this-happen denial and what on earth am I going to say at her funeral?
Recently I spent a week helping T treat the sites where a doctor removed two moles. Not malignant. Since then, I convinced him to let me make full body scan appointments for both of us. That is about three weeks in the future.
Last week (and the week before) I drove 4 hours round trip two non-consecutive days to spend time with B, my college roommate. Nothing like stage 4 colon cancer at our (young) age to snap life into perspective. I washed dishes, did laundry, swept, dusted, played card games with her, drove her on medical and non-medical errands... and talked. I have missed so many last chance conversations with other important-to-me people already, I won't let these go.
Next week she starts chemo.
I am caught between how-could-this-happen denial and what on earth am I going to say at her funeral?
