I get home from work. Jr. is in the kitchen talking to his
dad. I had asked Roy to break the news to Jr. and Corey because I’m exhausted
with it and it’s his turn now. They wrap up their conversation and Roy is
leaving the kitchen and I ask him quickly if he’d told Jr. yet.
“No.”
Guess I’ll do it.
Jr. reacts with surprise.
He too didn’t see it coming but then, I haven’t kept him up to date on
her status much either. He is silent and
I can see that he is trying to process the information.
I quickly get on the phone to text Corey the information as
well.
It reads: “You know
Mema is at M.D. Anderson, right. And she had her cancer removed. It came back…
which means it’s in her organs and traveling thru her system. This means it’s
terminal. I wanted you to know right away rather than wait until you came down
again. The doctor gave her 3 months to a year. We are going to see her again
this weekend but she is trying to get moved to Warm Springs here in Victoria.
Hopefully that will happen quickly.”
He responds much like the other boys: “Wow that’s horrible. I’m speechless. Yeah
hopefully they can have that transfer soon…”
And so it’s done. My family knows and now we wait.
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