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kane_magus) wrote2013-12-18 02:20 pm
kane_magus) wrote2013-12-18 02:20 pm
Unlucky '13.
I got a call a few hours ago that my eldest sister is in the hospital with stage 4 intestinal cancer which apparently has already spread to her pancreas and possibly her liver as well. She sounded fine when I talked to her on the phone a few minutes ago, and she said they still didn't know for sure what all the options are, but all in all, after talking to my other sisters, it didn't sound like the prognosis was going to be very good.
She'd already had some surgery related to this a few years ago, and apparently had made plans to have something else to be done later next year related to this that she hadn't been planning to tell anyone about until after Christmas, but it seems like it was much worse than they thought it would be, given that she had to be brought to the hospital about it earlier this week.
In any case, I was already scheduled to fly back to North Carolina for Christmas, leaving out of Seatac at shortly after midnight this coming Sunday morning. Was originally planned to be coming back out here on Dec 31, but there's talk of maybe postponing my return trip (not, I think or at least hope, for reasons related to this, since my sister had already mentioned this possibility back in October when I first told her about the job situation).
And yeah, yeah, there's that whole job thing and all that, too, and 2013 sucks because of that as well, and it was kind of at the forefront of my mind up until now, but whatever. I don't really even care about that right now.
Man... just... fuck cancer.
She'd already had some surgery related to this a few years ago, and apparently had made plans to have something else to be done later next year related to this that she hadn't been planning to tell anyone about until after Christmas, but it seems like it was much worse than they thought it would be, given that she had to be brought to the hospital about it earlier this week.
In any case, I was already scheduled to fly back to North Carolina for Christmas, leaving out of Seatac at shortly after midnight this coming Sunday morning. Was originally planned to be coming back out here on Dec 31, but there's talk of maybe postponing my return trip (not, I think or at least hope, for reasons related to this, since my sister had already mentioned this possibility back in October when I first told her about the job situation).
And yeah, yeah, there's that whole job thing and all that, too, and 2013 sucks because of that as well, and it was kind of at the forefront of my mind up until now, but whatever. I don't really even care about that right now.
Man... just... fuck cancer.