The Spector amendment has failed and now they are debating the Rockefeller Amendment. Carry on...

There are times in all of our lives when we are faced with insurmountable odds. The sky is gray and the rain continues to fall.

It is November and my husband finds a small lump on his neck, right behind his left ear. It is where the drainage tube used to be. The one that was placed there when he was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma. The doctors did the routine surgery and were positive they had gotten it all. It has been a year and a half since he was diagnosed the first time and was told that he was cancer free. I think maybe it is scar tissue. I am wrong. A month later he leaves our home in Seattle for MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. I pack our home into storage and drop my car off at the dealer. A voluntary repossession means nothing at this point. I quit my job. A week later I join him and his family in Houston. He dies 6 months later. He is 27 years old.

Follow me to the otherside: