Sorry, I Don't Have Time For Cancer

Tag: family

  • I miss my Dad

    Today and tomorrow were always special for my Dad and I as today is my birthday and tomorrow is his. We’ve always celebrated our bdays together. Two strong Scorpios with a special connection. Tomorrow would have been my dad’s 90th birthday; a number he desperately wanted to make. Unfortunately he passed earlier this year at…

  • It was the best of times; It was the worst of times.

    Yesterday I lost my Dad. Cause of death…what else…CANCER! He was diagnosed with terminal stage 5 pancreatic cancer in November. His goal was to make it to Christmas to enjoy his new great granddaughter’s first Christmas holiday. He did make it, although was only able to visit with us for half an hour before needing…

  • I don’t take life for granted

    Six years ago today, I walked down a brightly lit, cold, sterile hallway and into an operating room to undergo a bilateral mastectomy in order to fight breast cancer. The memory of that day is still as vivid as if it was yesterday. I am reminded of the ordeal by the scars and chronic pain…