Saying Goodbye
Learning the inevitable. Scared all my life that I would lose loved ones one by one to cancer. It's the scarlet letter . The awful crest that each wears. Cancer! So on this particular day when I am summoned to my eldest sister's home upon her return home from the hospital. A place she was only supposed to be for a couple of days that lasted weeks. There was in the air that made it difficult to breathe. She looked weak laying on top of the bed. Told to sit by her feet. Siblings coming into the room. One standing behind me, one in the door and my brother across from me. She had problem looking me into the eyes and stared at the ceiling as the words slowly came out of her mouth. She has been diagnosed with cancer and it wasn't in her lungs. She was a lung cancer survivor and this time is was in her liver spreading. She was determined to fight and she was going to beat it! In shock, the tears flowed, collapsing into the sibling arms who was behind me. Questions...