Thursday, September 10, 2009

Cancer: Informing Your Family, the Fear and the Courage

As I was writing in my book tonight, I realized that most of what I was writing was really "blog" material. So, here I am writing a brief introduction to what will be my blog. The chapter I am working on is when my mother informed her brother about her cancer. It was a process. You see, for two weeks my mother would not tell her brothers and sisters. Even when she was hospitalized, she wouldn't let us tell them. She was overcome with fear, a fear she never spoke of, but was ever present when you tried to broach the subject. My