Current Events > And if I only could, I'd make a deal with god and I'd get him to swap our places

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This was always one of my favourite songs. Even before Stranger Things sparked the revival of interest. Now it has a much shittier poignancy to it, and I hate it.

The surgeon was a lying asshole, or an ignorant dipshit. The latter's more likely since it's a rare cancer. He told us it's all done and dusted. It isn't.

He neglected to tell us that it'd reached the lymph nodes and was actually in the "this is actually very concerning and deserves regular monitoring that it didn't get to stage 4" as opposed to the "oh, we'll check every few years, but you're cured" he told us.

Also, rather than being "a weird lightning bolt cancer", once this type of cancer happens once it's likely to reoccur, often quite aggressively.

My wife's absolutely terrified she won't be alive when our kids are adults, and that they won't remember her. It's absolutely breaking my heart and I would quite happily die tomorrow if it meant she had a full life with them without that fear.

Also, 80/80

It's all good, CE's resident entomologist and good person.

In her words, and quite consistent with her usually unbelievably strong and pragmatic way,

"It is what it is".

Meanwhile, I've had to properly grow a backbone for the first time in my life, so as to be properly supportive.