shattering
Have you ever received a phone call that provided you with news that shattered your world? 4 years ago I watched my father take the phone call that let us know that Tim had killed himself. My world was shattered in an instant. Then I listened to him cry and I thought my heart would burst from the pain I felt. Tonight I watched him take the 2nd phone call. My aunt has had cysts in her breasts for years and she recently went in to have another removed. While they were there they discovered cancer in her ducts. Apparently she has had it for a while and they are sending the case to the cancer review board to discuss what should be done. They are willing to do radiation treatments and removal of the surrounding tissue, but it is such a rare type of cancer that they don't know how to fight it. He has lost one sister to suicide, one nephew to suicide, and now he has to face his other sister having cancer. How do we pull through this? How do we get through the next several days of not knowing? Just when life was starting to make sense again...shattered.