Monday
Apr302007
Grief Takes Precedence
Monday, April 30, 2007 at 04:36PM
Two weeks ago, I wrote about children and tragedy and how to talk about it.
And now, someone very close to me, to my husband and children, is dying. And I don't know what to do. I don't know how to talk about this yet, so I'm just trying to figure it out.
We have been through a year-long battle, from the sidelines, with Leukemia.
Six weeks ago, we were all so relieved to hear news of a virtually clean bill of health, 100 days after the bone marrow transplant. Last Monday, the doctors told our friends (husband & wife, close to sixty, no children) the Leukemia is back, aggressively, with 20% of his blood already sick again. At first they gave him 3 months, but by the next day, another doctor had told them possibly weeks.
I went to visit on Friday. He is at home now and he's feeling good. He has refused any more chemo, so they are preparing and accepting that this will be the end, this summer. They've decided to have a really good May & June and see where it all goes from there. It is all so surreal.
And now, someone very close to me, to my husband and children, is dying. And I don't know what to do. I don't know how to talk about this yet, so I'm just trying to figure it out.
We have been through a year-long battle, from the sidelines, with Leukemia.
Six weeks ago, we were all so relieved to hear news of a virtually clean bill of health, 100 days after the bone marrow transplant. Last Monday, the doctors told our friends (husband & wife, close to sixty, no children) the Leukemia is back, aggressively, with 20% of his blood already sick again. At first they gave him 3 months, but by the next day, another doctor had told them possibly weeks.
I went to visit on Friday. He is at home now and he's feeling good. He has refused any more chemo, so they are preparing and accepting that this will be the end, this summer. They've decided to have a really good May & June and see where it all goes from there. It is all so surreal.
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