It’s strange to think that this journey with my Aunt V. and my family started just two weeks ago. It feels like months… and I don’t know when or how this will all end.
Well, I have some idea of how this will end. V does have stage four liver bile duct cancer, after all. It’s an aggressive cancer, and also inoperable. With chemotherapy, her doctors give her six months or so to live. Without chemo, they don’t expect her to last the year.
When I first found out, I looked online for books and resources for family members of a person facing this type of cancer. (Note to self: don’t look that stuff up on the internet any more… it’s depressing, and doesn’t really prepare you for what you experience day-to-day.)
So I’m sharing my own personal journal sketchnotes here with you, week by week, in the hope that someone may find it helpful… that someone may realize that they aren’t crazy or the only one feeling like this as they get to face their own family cancer from the sidelines.
This is week two.
Hoping this finds you happy and well,
Jeannel
Jeannel: This is a lovely piece. I am sorry to hear about you Aunt. I am sure this will be a comfort to others as well who are going through a similar situation. Love and prayers to you all.