"We think that Hugh has cancer." It only takes a few words spoken in a hospital side room, and the life you once knew disappears. You are expected to manage all of it while trying to understand whether your son or daughter will survive.
"We think that Hugh has cancer." It only takes a few words spoken in a hospital side room, and the life you once knew disappears.
You are expected to manage all of it while trying to understand whether your son or daughter will survive.
In the 10 months between, my wife, Frances, and I lived around chemotherapy, surgery, scans and the desperate hope that a miracle would happen.
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"We think that Hugh has cancer." It only takes a few words spoken in a hospital side room, and the life you once knew disappears. You are expected to manage all of it while trying to understand whether your son or daughter will survive. In the 10 months between, my wife, Frances, and I lived around chemotherapy, surgery, scans and the desperate hope that a miracle would happen.
Whatever mattered that morning becomes irrelevant. Outside that room, outside those hospital walls, nothing stops. Your employer still needs to know whether you are coming in.
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