This past week, month, and year has thrown a lot of curveballs my way. The most daunting of which is Cancer. Ive have been diagnosed with two forms and nearly a third since May. I beat one, i think & hope. Another, CLL, is a chronic condition but im hopeful they will find a cure in my lifetime. Most recently my father was diagnosed with stage iv pancreatic. This is probably the worst news you can get but I have been buoyed by two things in the early goings of this, his attitude & the expertise of the very skilled and capable care team at MGH. It is very early in his diagnosis and he first has has to recover from the Whipple Procedure he just had, along with a nasty bout of sepsis, so we have not even met with his oncology team and he awaits a PET scan and some critical post op blood work to really get a full picture of what we are up against. In the first few days of hearing this news I was crushed and scared and so emotional but yesterday, for the first time i really felt like this can be a gift if we let it.
Lumch with court sans her ruby nick dizzy.
A coastal criise for the ages.
A dump run
Coffee
Meat
Carriage house
Semi Pro
He was 5 days out of surgery, it was a friday afternoon i had dipped into MGH with plans for a nice visit & then evening out celebrating Caitlin MacDonalds birthday at Davios in the Seaport. As my dad and i sat in his room shooting the breeze about the celts, his lack of a really good BM, figuring out how to donate to his roommates upcoming fundraiser, the grandkids daily news…a young and highly bookish white coat walked in and said mr keefe do you have a few minutes? My dad said sure let me finush this tect and worked out somethings to hus partner and also said oh yeah Kate, Carlos & Thomas came in earlier - it aint good. Uh, huh. I looked at this fellow fella searching for an encouraging sign instead he hung his head and scribbled something on the folding piece of paper he was carrying with him.
Dad finished his text - in my mind i was think ill throw that fckn janky ass phone in the carles.
