The Kindness of Friends Keeps Me Going

I didn’t realize I could survive cancer alone

Photo by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash

I’m a divorced woman.

I didn’t want to be, I worked hard to make my marriage work. And, for a while, despite the challenges we faced — my cancer, his losing a job at the age of 50, his alcoholism, my mother moving in with us — we were getting through it. In fact, for the 2 years before he left me…