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Hi my name is Ron. I am 52 years old. My life has been pretty simple up until now. Go to work come home from work. Bring in the money and take out the trash. Look forward to my time off, Write and Draw my web Comic. Last March my wife was diagnosed with Breast cancer. Everything changed.
I won't go into the minutia. I would like to explore the partner of a cancer patients point of view. A very helpless feeling let me tell you. I want to be the leader. I want to take the brunt of the blow. But I can't it's not my body. Not my cross to bear. I find myself being swept along following my dear wife's lead and trying to be useful while feeling useless.
One of my fellow web comic artists just lost her husband to cancer. This kind of news hits so much harder than it ever did before. Tomorrow we fly to Anchorage to start Chemotherapy. I approach this with deep dread. I lost my mother to cancer and I remember the chemotherapy. Donna is the strong one but every once in awhile her uncertainty shows. That is why I'm here, to smile reassuringly at strategic times and be there to cry on. My father was so very good at this with my mother. He is the example I aspire to. If I can be like Dad I will have in my opinion succeeded. So far I give me a C. But I will keep trying. Stop by again and we will explore some more.