Cancer And Other Sickness

Writing Down the Bones Deck Prompts by Natalie Goldberg - Cancer. That word. Write about any single disease you know directly.

Cancer

Evasive answer

Had it

Oh sh-t

What more can I say

it isn't showing up today

Writing Down the Bones Deck Prompts by Natalie Goldberg - Sickness is another aspect to include in writing - and is often avoided. Big diseases: leukemia or pancreatic, lung, skin, liver, colon cancer. Heart disease, rashes, rheumatism, broken bones, cold, acne, diabetes - the list can go on. Amazing what can happen to a human body.

Include that hangnail, a bruise, and a boil that developed. Imperfection adds truth and a dark line to brightness, a contrast that intensifies reality, makes happiness believable.

As the entire world was confronted with the COVID-19 pandemic, everyone's life was touched in one way or another. Not all because of the actual disease but because of how we reacted to such a development - how clear-thinking and prepared we were, how considerate and communal we could be.

Global change has happened in other eras of human history. With the coronavirus pandemic, this became our time. Writing can help ground the anxiety and the unknown.

In September of 2009, Ione died of diabetes complications, my Mama

and right after in September of 2010, my sister died of leukemia.

Last week a friend had painful red patches on her face - it was skin cancer

She said the treatment was making her face hurt and red was her answer

Does a broken heart count for heart dis ease? Probably not.

So, I have AFIB, Mitral valve prolapse, and a bit enlarged is what I got.

Rashes and looking like Acne in my 60s turned out to be rosacea

I broke my arm a few years back, and I have diabetes and sleep apnea

is the latest. Then there was alopecia, and obesity... the idea!

The bruises come from AFIB with blood thinners on board

and the one boil I had and someone said it was from obesity, oh lord!

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My baby brother died from Covid at 48

I could not believe it was possible on that date

He was 19 years younger and felt like my son

My children knew him as a brother, they had fun

My brother's girlfriend thought he was the one

that made her boyfriend a father, oh brother!

Why you, so young and why so many other

friends and family? The pandemic came and went

or will it ever really leave? I can and will vent!