Mom

I just got a call a few minutes ago.  My mom is probably going to be admitted to the ICU at the hospital to try to get some bleeding under control.  It is to do with treating a rare form of cancer whose name I cannot remember becase its length.  No definite word as to what her chances are.  But this does not sound good.  I may be on the road to Denver before long.  Hopefully not for a funeral.  Hopefully not for hers.  This does not even seem real.  If mom goes, and one way or the other, it sounds like she will before too long, this will be the fourth child my grandmother will have buried.  I cannot even imagine how difficult that could be.  I don’t ever want to know.  Cancer.  What an aweful word!  It is getting to a point where everyone I am close to has it, or has died of some form of it.  Cancer.