On June 22nd, my mother passed away. She was 81, so I knew the call would come sooner or later, but she had only gone into the hospital the previous Thursday. The diagnosis of lung cancer hadn’t even been confirmed yet. By the 21st, she was already fading fast. I saw her on Monday evening at about 9pm, and she was gone 4 hours later. I don’t think we are ever truly prepared for a parent’s death, but how can we possibly begin to prepare in only 4 days?
Tag Archive: cancer
I had a biopsy this week. I’ve developed lumps in both forearms under the skin, some of which have been painful. I thought originally that they might be blood clots as I have a history of deep vein thrombosis. I had an ultrasound in January, and the technician who performed it showed me on the screen that it wasn’t in fact clots, but enlarged lymph nodes. I, of course, went home and googled, and read up on lymphoma, and, of course, panicked at the thought of cancer. My surgeon tried to be reassuring and told me he thought it was lipoma, which for some reason, I didn’t google until Wednesday morning just before the procedure. So it could be lymphoma, which is cancer, or it could be lipoma, which is a benign tumor. Somehow, the word tumor doesn’t reassure me as much as the surgeon seemed to think it would.
