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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

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Written by
cj-sutherland
65 / F / U.S
Published
Jan 8
Lines·Words
31·158
Notes

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

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