A blessing that he had her that long, but a curse in that she suffered much too long. Later my father said it was both a blessing and a curse. She, however, confounded them by living fourteen months. When asked, her Oncologist would only say to hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.Īfter her passing, the Oncologist admitted he and the other doctors expected mom to live three to five months after she was diagnosed.
Her doctors would never give my father an estimate of how much time she had to live.
When I was fourteen years old, my mother passed away due to complications of cervical cancer.
