I’d like to introduce you to my “Journey with June“. This is my personal blog chronicle with a dear friend as she (and I) navigate her Stage 3 Lung Cancer.
This first entry will discuss the initial phone call….
It was the end of August. I hadn’t spoken with “June” for several months and received a late night phone call Sunday 8/26. My friend was in a sad panic where she tearfully asked me if I would mind going with her to a doctor appointment she was nervous about. She quickly explained her 2 adult children were unable to support her and she didn’t want to go alone. I immediately checked my schedule and was able to take her. She was apologetic that her family was unable to be there for her.
I told her she had other people than family that cared for her and to not apologize for her children’s actions – or inaction.
This was the first of many conversations about support, her kids, and not filling validated in her illness. While “June” is almost 10 years older than me, she refers to me as “mom”. I think she merely wants to be loved and taken care of in this journey. She took care of her own mother who passed from lung cancer and now she feels she has no one to take care of her. I often wrap my arms around her and give her a big squeeze – it heals us both.
Stay tuned for the first appointment – The voicing of the C Word.
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