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Few events are more jarring to the human experience than being diagnosed with an acutely life-threatening illness. Perhaps as devastating–or even worse–is when that person is a loved one, especially a child or a young life-partner.
Few events are more jarring to the human experience than being diagnosed with an acutely life-threatening illness. Perhaps as devastating–or even worse–is when that person is a loved one, especially a child or a young life-partner.
And if you're a young person, having a parent or close relative diagnosed with a terminal illness may likely be the most emotionally devastating experience you've faced to date.
In 1984, my then-44-year-old mother was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer when I was a junior in college and my sister a junior in high school. I would have done anything for her then–and continued to do so–until she died on December 9, 2017, in her own bed at her home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, some 33 years after her initial diagnosis.
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