geepondy
Flashlight Enthusiast
Got a call from my Dad tonight. The results of my Mom's xray revealed lung cancer. They will do more tests in a few days but it doesn't look good. The thing is, you don't wish for either of your parent's to die but this wasn't the plan. For years my Dad has suffered from emphysema, with very poor vision and is pretty much house/yard bound. My Mom on the other hand enjoyed comparatively good health, drove, did the grocery shopping etc. and even still cleans houses for a couple people. She is not real old yet, only 67. In other words she could get by without my Dad, I am not sure about the other way around.
Yes, both of them smoke heavily. Neither I nor any of my siblings do and I am grateful for that. But when something like this happens, you don't care how/why/the reason for, etc., you only feel bad because it has, completely forgive them for their sins and only know that you will miss them terrible when they are no longer here.
I don't know how I am going to react as things unfold in the upcoming days and weeks. I of course will hope and pray for a miracle and hope that perhaps readers of this post might do the same but truthfully I've never known anyone to beat lung cancer including three uncles and one aunt. I've never considered myself to be a couragous person in the very least but I will try to take comfort from Jeff's (flashlightboy) post. That has been perhaps the most courageous and eloquent posts I have ever read.
Yes, both of them smoke heavily. Neither I nor any of my siblings do and I am grateful for that. But when something like this happens, you don't care how/why/the reason for, etc., you only feel bad because it has, completely forgive them for their sins and only know that you will miss them terrible when they are no longer here.
I don't know how I am going to react as things unfold in the upcoming days and weeks. I of course will hope and pray for a miracle and hope that perhaps readers of this post might do the same but truthfully I've never known anyone to beat lung cancer including three uncles and one aunt. I've never considered myself to be a couragous person in the very least but I will try to take comfort from Jeff's (flashlightboy) post. That has been perhaps the most courageous and eloquent posts I have ever read.