Dad was always able to muster strength we didn’t know he had, and it’ll take more than a cancer diagnosis to weaken him now, writes Mitchell Consky
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.First Person is a daily personal piece submitted by readers. Have a story to tell? See our guidelines atIt was almost two in the morning when I entered my parents’ house, reeking of marijuana. I disabled the alarm, pulled off my shoes, and sprayed a little Lysol on my sweatshirt.
I had been walking around the neighbourhood with my friend Sam, smoking separate joints, keeping six feet apart and struggling to process my dad’s recent diagnosis. I wasn’t able to cry during that walk; in fact, I haven’t been able to cry for the last couple weeks. Discovering Stage 4 cancer is scary enough, but it’s even scarier during a pandemic. All of it was too overwhelming to understand, too impossible to interpret.
I wasn’t surprised that he wasn’t there. After his first treatment, he’d been getting weaker and more fatigued. Some days, it was difficult for him to even leave his bed except to go to the bathroom. I had been walking with him down the upstairs hallway once a day to prevent too much atrophy. With my arms prepared to hold him, we’d head toward my bedroom at the end.
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