Yesterday my friend Jon died from lung cancer.
Today, a fellow Project Gutenberg volunteer went into hospice from pancreatic cancer -- the same cancer that killed my grandfather and uncle.
Also today, my sister is starting chemo for her clear cell carcinoma.
Besides feeling utterly overwhelmed, I have no idea how I'm doing / feeling. It's like my brain has intellectually accepted these as facts but knows I'm incapable of integrating the truth of them yet.
1/x
Casey Peel
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