sickness (my ma)
Jan. 31st, 2008 08:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
likethebeerThere's no new news about my mom, but, with Edwards withdrawing from the race, a few news outlets have mentioned his wife's cancer, which they have described as "treatable but incurable". I suddenly realized that this is what my mom's cancer is.
From our perspective, it's that my mom is constantly on chemo or under the knife. With the exception of 4 months, she's not been cancer-free since June 2002.
I've thought for years that this cancer is never going to go away and, barring the "you could have a heart attack/get hit by a car tomorrow" scenario, that this is going to kill her, but I guess I'd never thought that there was some condition of cancer that my mother & Elizabeth Edwards have, that is known as "treatable but incurable". It's just another way of thinking about it, I guess.
From our perspective, it's that my mom is constantly on chemo or under the knife. With the exception of 4 months, she's not been cancer-free since June 2002.
I've thought for years that this cancer is never going to go away and, barring the "you could have a heart attack/get hit by a car tomorrow" scenario, that this is going to kill her, but I guess I'd never thought that there was some condition of cancer that my mother & Elizabeth Edwards have, that is known as "treatable but incurable". It's just another way of thinking about it, I guess.
