Jul
14
I’ll keep this short. Today my Mother lost her baby brother to cancer. Cancer is an awful disease and doesn’t discriminate based on age, race, financial status, or popularity. It just comes, with its deadly quiet, and takes. Takes energy, takes happiness, takes a life much too young. Advances are being made, but much more …
May
22
In May 1994, I found myself standing beside a hospital bed, watching my mother-in-law fade away as she lost her fight with breast cancer. I was 23 years old and this was the first time that death had directly impacted me. I wept for losing a woman (only 57 years old) that I was still …
