Normally I wouldn't update so quickly after having just done an update, but life seems to have provided a good reason to.
So I woke up this afternoon to my phone ringing. I looked and saw it was my dad calling and figured it could wait. After all he would leave a message if it were important. Well he leaves a voice message. I listen and it is the ominous, "As soon as you get this call me back." I brace myself because my grandfather has been in a state of decline over the last couple years and I assume something has happened to him. So I call my father back immediately.
When he picks up the first thing he does is put me on speaker phone so that my mom can hear me and speak to me as well. Now I'm confused. My mother had told me about some gastro-intestinal problems she had been having a few weeks ago, and apparently they had determined the cause. My mother informs me that the doctors have concluded she has one of two types of cancer and they aren't yet sure if it has spread to her liver and/or lungs yet.
That would be bad enough if it weren't for the fact that my grandmother died of breast cancer when I was 12. I considered her practically a mother figure and when she died I practically shut down socially. I don't expect the same reaction this time should the worse come to pass, but needless to say I am unhappy about the fact that I will have potentially lost two mothers to cancer.
Even though I am a firm atheist I find this quote from Pitch Black comforting, "I absolutely do believe in a God, and I hate the fucker."
So like any good young person I am opting to address this problem with booze and some friends.
So I woke up this afternoon to my phone ringing. I looked and saw it was my dad calling and figured it could wait. After all he would leave a message if it were important. Well he leaves a voice message. I listen and it is the ominous, "As soon as you get this call me back." I brace myself because my grandfather has been in a state of decline over the last couple years and I assume something has happened to him. So I call my father back immediately.
When he picks up the first thing he does is put me on speaker phone so that my mom can hear me and speak to me as well. Now I'm confused. My mother had told me about some gastro-intestinal problems she had been having a few weeks ago, and apparently they had determined the cause. My mother informs me that the doctors have concluded she has one of two types of cancer and they aren't yet sure if it has spread to her liver and/or lungs yet.
That would be bad enough if it weren't for the fact that my grandmother died of breast cancer when I was 12. I considered her practically a mother figure and when she died I practically shut down socially. I don't expect the same reaction this time should the worse come to pass, but needless to say I am unhappy about the fact that I will have potentially lost two mothers to cancer.
Even though I am a firm atheist I find this quote from Pitch Black comforting, "I absolutely do believe in a God, and I hate the fucker."
So like any good young person I am opting to address this problem with booze and some friends.
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vassilis:
*hug* that really sucks! hope they can do something for your mom!
ontothenext:
I am going through the same thing right now. be strong.