"Getting on" with life after a spouse dies is not easy. Forgiving cancer for its domino effect is even harder.
PUBLISHED January 04, 2018
Diana M. Martin has been an adjunct professor in The Writing and Reading Center
at Montgomery College in Rockville, MD, for over 10 years. She has a MFA in
Creative Nonfiction and has published articles in the areas of parenting,
health and cultural arts. When her husband lost his battle with cancer of
unknown primary, later identified as bile duct cancer, she became the sole
caregiver for their adult son, Alex, who is autistic.
I haven't written a new entry for this blog in over six months. I think I was too busy trying to "get on" with my life. You see, although my husband died more than two years ago from bile duct cancer, I am still recovering from his cancer. I wasn't the one diagnosed. I wasn't the one who suffered endless treatments of chemo, radiation and their side effects. I was the one who watched. Those images are hard to erase. I think they will always be there; some days they are cloudy, other times they are crystalline.
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