It all happens on Father’s Day.

Breathing troubles

end in a trip to the ER-

broken ribs and a fractured spine?

I know something wasn’t right

What causes this pain? My family wonders?

Cancer the doctor state

Cancer?

It all happens so fast.

Breast Cancer-

Stage IV to be exact.

The cancer spreading through her body

quickly eats away at her decaying bones

causing excruciating pain.

It all happens so fast.

Later that night

Mom sits us girls down,

telling my sisters and I

cancer is in her sister’s body.

It all happens so fast.

I try to be strong,

not to cry,

but seeing my mom talk about her sister…

seeing my mom thinking about her childhood memories with her sister,

my aunt,

makes my heart ache   for her

It all happens so fast.

It has been a couple months since

the life changing experience in our family.

Back and forth in the hospital,

visits on the farm…

It all happens so fast.