One Easter
by cricketjeff on August 21, 2008. © Jeff Green, All rights reserved
You don’t really hear the words
just one word
All about survival rates and
drug trials
positive thinking
long term options
side effects
You just hold him
tiny, weak, emaciated
as they explain things
things
you never wanted to know
how if it had been you
you would have died
but now
now
things are different
no, it can’t start today,
On Monday,
and really
try not to worry
How do you not worry?
Two days before
Rhabdomyosarcoma
wasn’t even a crossword answer
now it may be a death sentence
and you pronounce it
Cancer
Author notes
He was 6, my youngest son, they were the Consultant oncologists and Great
Ormond Street Hospital
He is now 18, and about to go off to university.
It wasn’t a fun year.
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