“Six Months to Live”
Six months to live. That was the diagnosis my dad received on July 2, 2012. He had retired just three days earlier from his job as an elementary school principal. Our whole family was together to celebrate his retirement after forty years of service. Dad was experiencing some back pain that weekend, so he went to get checked out. Unfortunately, they found lung cancer — spread throughout his body and into the bones. Stage 4. We were all in shock. My dad, the man I had looked up to as a hero my entire life, was a little bit broken. […]
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