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September is National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. I honestly hadn't planned to write a piece about cancer. It’s been in me for a long time, but I never even considered letting it out until now. Still hopelessly torn, I ultimately took the easy way out and put it in my Step-Mother’s hands. I told her that I was thinking of writing a piece and if she agreed, would send it to her for approval before publishing. If Joyce said that I could write it, I would.
Peter grew up an only child. I remember him as a fun, happy, athletic kid. Ice Hockey was his game and he played it as often as he could. It was an unusually large swollen area from a hit with a hockey puck that resulted in Peter’s diagnosis. To this day I’m not really sure what kind of cancer he had, one of his Oncologists said it was most similar to a childhood cancer someone his age wouldn’t have.
At one year post-chemo, Peter, Joyce and I went into Dana Farber for a checkup. The Oncologist told us that there was a mass where his adrenal gland used to be and other nodes as well. She talked about treatment. I remember going into the ladies’ room afterwards and talking to Joyce about what we’d found out. How surreal it was that Joyce and I had heard two completely different things. What she heard was positive, she heard treatment. What I heard was negative, I heard that it was back.
Peter went into remission again and went to college. Cal State Chico. He was pledging a fraternity when it became clear that he wasn’t well. I remember that my husband and I had plans to host friends at his ski house when, the day before we were to head up to New Hampshire, Joyce called and asked me to come home and fly with her up to California to take Peter out of school. The whole 2 hour drive home was a blur. Joyce, her niece and I flew up there.
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