Not sure where else to post this, but I just learned that an old buddy lost his lengthy battle with cancer this evening after putting up a solid fight. If anyone feels like raising a glass to a random stranger, I’m sure he’d appreciate it.
Fuck cancer, and be excellent to each other 🥃
Glass raised to your buddy. Fuck cancer.
My mother’s thing has spread. Metastasis, they say. Experimental treatments with emphasis on quality of life, they suggest. I don’t know what to do.
Please, please, please be nice to everyone and help everyone in any way you can.
My uncle took a voluntary in early COVID days as the lymphoma required more and more frequent transfusions onsite amid sick people and he with no immune system. He didn’t want to risk his daughter’s pregnancy, fraught as it was already, and when the transfusions got too frequent and his time left was too short and risky, he gathered his family and left us peacefully at 5 pm on a Tuesday.
I miss him dearly.
My cousin’s child was perfect and strong, and she’s already the free, fearless, astounding personality as the grandpa she never knew. She will know all the stories by heart, though.
Done.
Fuck cancer. 🍺
