She is stage four.
Knowing this will take her life,
Someday.
Her daughter knows too, but no one else can see the tiny cluster of cells on her liver; in her brain.
When they hear she has cancer they think it must be early because she still has her hair.
They don’t realize it’s a wig.
She just wants to see her children graduate high school,
But there’s always another milestone, always something she’ll miss.
Knowing she’ll be okay but what about everyone else she’ll leave behind?
How does she tell her kids she is dying of cancer?
She wants to show her daughter where to spread her ashes in the mountains, but she’s been feeling short of breath recently and her latest scans showed something new.
A met in her lung.
Her friends notice she’s stopped going to weekly support group meetings.
The unfortunate sisterhood; living through it together, fighting.
But, also dying.
They go to her celebration of life, but that makes it all more real.
The sisterhood continues; the rest continue living, however long they have left.
A new member walks in.
She is stage four.
