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Cancer, there is no answer No rhyme or reason No, typical season It’s something you get through Not something you do Finality seniority The process regress The stages of grief Sometimes death is relief The things we aren’t supposed to say The things we think to make it go away We silently prepare for the worst Black hurst Negativity Under a demon’s spell Of no return of The finality of it all Life marker received the call When a life ends People in their grief try to make amends It is selfish of me to think these things The fear of what life brings Saying the silent out loud Facing the fear, giving it to God, letting Go Who am I if not, my husband’s wife What will happen to my life? What will I become? In totality I evolve For whom the bell tolls Death effects one and all Not just the one the grim Reaper call
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Jan 8
Jan 8, 2026 at 11:48 AM UTC
Cancer The Big “C”
Cancer, there is no answer No rhyme or reason No, typical season It’s something you get through Not something you do Finality seniority The process regress The stages of grief Sometimes death is relief The things we aren’t supposed to say The things we think to make it go away We silently prepare for the worst Black hurst Negativity Under a demon’s spell Of no return of The finality of it all Life marker received the call When a life ends People in their grief try to make amends It is selfish of me to think these things The fear of what life brings Saying the silent out loud Facing the fear, giving it to God, letting Go Who am I if not, my husband’s wife What will happen to my life? What will I become? In totality I evolve For whom the bell tolls Death effects one and all Not just the one the grim Reaper call
My husband is having a surgery January 21 for mouth cancer. This is not his first first bout with cancer of the mouth. Lesson learned do not smoke even if you stopped smoking years later, this could be your faith. Two surgical teams feeding two trachea to try to prevent infection.. First surgical team will remove the cancer in the mouth. Second surgical team take a piece of skin from the forearm with a vein and artery attached, reattaching it in the neck to keep that skin flap alive. Attach that on top of the hole in the mouth. This delicate operation if too much scar tissue will in peed his ability to speak plus the pre-existing star tissue from the last surgery, makes it a delicate dance. The doctor fourth in the nation San Francisco said your last surgery was a three in severity. This one is an eight. The biggest issue would be that of infection. 3 to 4 days in ICU straight out of surgery seven days hospital.. Providing they get clear parameters that would be the end of it. If not radiation don’t even want to think that word right now. My husband is 77 years old. prayers are appreciated
cj-sutherland
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Jan 8
Jan 8, 2026 at 11:48 AM UTC
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