by Torrie Lynn

Created on: January 19, 2009

Cancer and its aftermath

They say that Cancer is a disease, but it is not, it is a plague. The effects of Cancer live on even after the victim has long passed away. It turns sane people insane to a certain extent and tears the main foundation of the family to the ground. Because of Cancer, our everyday life that we have known no longer exits any where in this realm of the world or I have yet to find it again. This is very harsh but it is very true, I know.

When the news comes that a loved one has been diagnosed with terminal cancer it seems that for just a few minutes the whole world stops as your brain tries to let the news sink in. Then as it sinks in you are still not sure that what you heard was real. The questions pour out of your mouth wanting answers that even the doctors sometimes do not have. You want to yell at them for being the ones who just put the atom bomb in your lap. Your mind races as thoughts run circles through your head and yet no answers make sense. That is because as I found out that there are no answers for anguish and pain.

On the drive home you are still in shock, not knowing what is going to happen next. The doctors have explained the best that they can what can and cannot be done. They schedule test that they deem necessary and you leave there with a handful of papers, prescriptions and no hope. What you have yet to realize is that the hardest part lies ahead and it is not the treatments.

Having to tell your family, brothers, mothers, sisters and fathers is hard enough, but telling your kids is another story. The look on their faces is enough to tear your heart out of your body. You can see the tears well up, they try so hard to hold them back and be strong. They start asking questions just as you had done in the doctors' office and this time it is you that have no answers to give. You explain the best that you can what was said and what has to be done. They hang on every word hope in their eyes that this can be made to go away and everything will once more be ok. They have yet to see the worst time in their lives are still to come and being a protective parent you try your best to let them hold on while they can to normalcy.

The days start getting longer as treatment begins and more tests are run. In between all this there is still a job you have to work, a house to maintain and a family to run. So each day goes by and it turns into weeks of treatments and doctors visits, then months. You set helplessly by as some one you love goes thru

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