cancer – On Life, Hope y todo lo demás…

Cancer, death and the aftermath of pain and financial debt.

In my little world, cancer was something that happened to other people. Not until I had my personal encounter with melanoma, did I really know what it meant to suffer from skin cancer. The same went for breast cancer – it seemed foreign – until a friend, the mother of two young children was hit […]

Impossible loss.

What to say when a life is gone? After months of suffering, “he” is gone. Some days, I was told, he spoke of a future. Other days he spoke of the past and the future didn’t exist. He went from hope to acceptance of what was to come.

A time to reassess your life.

In George Sheehan’s words: when you are faced with a deadly terminal disease you come to reassess your life. If only we didn’t have to go that far in order to get to that time of reassessment.