My Father

Growing up in my early years of single digits. I was around him, but not very close to him. He was always on the road driving a semi up, until my parents got divorced. Than he had moved on with his new family and started living a different kind of life that we didn't know much about. He didn't really want my sister and I around he three other kids and one more on the way. We had no clue that he had other children or another wife. From than I was raised by a single mom. The feeling was unimaginable when your parents split. Later on in my early twenties that are grandfather was passing from cancer and couldn't stop asking about us. I am still friends with him on social media.

This stranger coming back through asking me how my family was letting me know that the terrible thing in his life had hit him asking for hope. I was away from religion and being cursed more and more everyday with responsibility. To hear this sadness and read it on a personal level was extremely difficult to bear. While I was living in Ohio. Having time to help out they still stayed distant from me still with only communication between my father and I.

My grandfather having cancer was the worst for him as he felt it more and more everyday, especially through the past year. When the holidays came back around I couldn't help, but feel down about what was going on in it, through the healing as he started to look better in it and in pictures. Not knowing what to do especially with my exe that I had been with for years. We had grown apart with her dad having a stroke. She had to move back in with him. The situation even sadder. My father grew up in North Carolina on a tobacco field. The neatest experience you could imagine, but one I had not knew growing up in the city. Where he switched career paths from farmer/carpenter to refinery worker/semi-driver.

I remember when I was younger the long nights he was away. Driving was rough, but he loved it as a career and it had became his life in it. Being centered around his career is important as a father to take care of his family and live his life. A career like that though on the road can be dangerous and fearful he was strong to do it. It would have to be hard without either family and alone, now with his father passing.

Cancer scares every one in itself. There are over a million cases reported in the year 2019. It grows more and more scarier, with over Five-hundred and ninety- nine thousand die from it. With lung cancer being the number one leading in it. With environmental and certain behavioral things to trigger it. This is a major scare today. As we hope that they will fully be able to stop or cure cancer from the start for no suffering we can only hope as scientist in the field work day in, day out.

In conclusion I would like to thank the CDC and all the cancer societies out there that help this world on a day to day basis. For more information please go through the links below. To donate go through the link at the bottom of the page to bring a safer world free of cancer. Thank you, Again for taking time out of your day and reading my experience with my father and how he coped with losing his.

Sources-

https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/dcpc/data/index.htm#:~:text=In%20the%20United%20States%20in,which%20incidence%20data%20are%20available.

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https://www.cancerresearch.org/en-us/join-the-cause/donate