Let the fight Begin our Latte we shall not give up.
April 12 2018, our mom was just brought in to the GMH-Emergency room it severe pain, as we waited patiently for the doctors to run the medical test that is needed and providing our mom some pain relief. As we waited through out the night, our father and brother stay by her side. As the rest of us had gone home to tend to the kids.
It was not until the next day April 13 2018, my mom had instructed our brother to message us all to meet at the house by 500pm she had refused to be admitted or stay any longer at the hospital, she needed to get home to her family. As we all gathered with her at her home, and waited for our youngest brother and his family to arrive. Our mom sat on the couch waiting for each and everyone of her children and grand-children to arrive. I can see in my mom eyes and my dad that something was wrong.

We all sat around our parents in the living-room the look on my mom face as we all sat around her from all her children sitting on the chairs and her grand-children by her side. We all waited patiently to what she was about to say, other did we have know those words that our mom was about to speak was not going to be easy. As our mom finally found the courage she looked at us and this is what she said as her lips tremble “ I was just informed that I have cancer in my lungs, they had found lesions in both lung, but my children no matter what I need you all to remember to stay together and never forget that you are all brothers and sister, please take care of each-other”
Those words forever changed our lives, we just could not believe it as all of grand-children started to cry and hugged their grand-mother. We just couldn't believe that from her complaining of an simple shoulder pain, being informed it was just an bone spur, and thinking the pain she has been experiencing was just her RA. But it was more than that it was cancer.
Why did this have to happen to our mother, the latte of our family the person who holds us all together, why lord must it be our mother. As I sat there in the chair watching all the grand-kids crying out loud, our youngest brother walking out of the house slamming the door in anger. Why was this happening as I sat and looked around in disbelieve. Our mother cant have cancer, this cant be happening. What is going to happen. We need to help our mother fight this cancer. This was when I knew our mother journey has just begun, we need to ensure we get all her medical appointments set and to confirm if this is really cancer.

I mean just last month, we were all watching the kids playing soccer, as our mother cheered her grand-kids on. She was walking and smiling taking care of all us, but never a missing a game. She was the kids main cheerleader. Every day she would cook for her kids, she provided for us the best life any mother can. It may not have been perfect but she was the world to us all, especially to our father and the grand-children. We need her to fight, and we shall fight right along next to her. We all refused to give up, as long our mother was ready to fight this deadly disease. We are not ready to let our mother go. She is the light , the sun of our family. The latte that holds us all together. If she leaves us now we all would be lost. We need you mom, and we shall stand by your side. We need to Kick cancer in the butt.