I love my coworker. We talk about stuff. We talk about faith – she has it and I don’t and wish I had it. We talk about families. She only works part time.
When she came back on Thursday I asked her how her day off was. She said, “Actually, I was having drug treatment”.
Then she said, “I have liver cancer”.
Wow, say I. That’s hard core. Which is the understatement of the century.
We carry on talking but it like her liver is hanging between us in my mind yelling CANCER CANCER CANCER CANCER CANCER CANCERY CANCER CANCER CANCER CANCER CANCER.
She says, Once my doctor told me she can’t believe I”m still alive.
She’s had it for SEVEN years.
I don’t know what to say.
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