When friends ask how Tommy Gunnz and I are, the answers that are most often given are...
We're good! Fine. Great. Doing as well as can be expected! Oh you know, we are hanging in there!
The truth: WE ARE FUCKED!!!!
So yeah, we basically say what people want to hear because the truth sucks and the reality that we live in is hard to handle, hard to live, hard to even think about and even harder to talk about.
The truth is that there are honestly no nice words for what cancer does to you and your family.
It's not something you can truly understand until it's something you go through. Not because we don't want to reach out, not because we don't want help, not because we don't need our friends.
The truth is, it's easier to give people the answer everyone expects, because no one really wants to know the truth, the truth is just too hard and too sad and somehow inexplicably feels contagious.... Because it could be you or your loved one next, and it's too awful to think about.
I asked Grok what the cost of stomach cancer is in. The first 18 months from diagnosis.
This is what it answered below. I actually laughed and cried at the same time as I read it because for every awful thing it does say, there are a million things between each line that it doesn't.
What we don't say is that we would pay any price to save the people that we love and that, as hard and stressful as every day is or costs you all, it's also the most beautiful and precious day of our lives so far because we re still here to hold each other and cry. We are still thankful to be together. We are so thankful to have even one more morning, one more day and one more night.
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