a haiku about finding out your dad is dying
bitter, rusty knife
swallowed whole, causing me pain.
cancer is stupid
inspired by steve’s comment regarding the lobster dinner conversation which was roughly, “of all the rust knives to swallow, that’s one of the most bitter.”
it is officially “inoperable pancreatic cancer”. which is dumb. an oncologist will tell us how dumb in the next few days.
hooray alcohol.
[...] Empathy You would think that when a close friend has it confirmed that her father has a inoperable cancer in a rare (read: poorly researched and effectively untreatable) form, that I’d have some sage “here’s how I coped” advice. [...]