![]() ![]() Your father made your favorite dish, your sister made your favorite dessert and your mother got off work early with a heap of goodies that she knew were your favorite. News spread quickly within the family of your remission, and they were all quick to put a mini celebration together. She’s always looking for an excuse to get out of work. “I-I’ll try and get out early,” your mother exclaims. You hear a strangled sob from the other end of the phone, and your tears begin to fall more intensely, if that’s even possible. You nod, despite knowing she can’t see you. ![]() “Are you… Is it gone?” she stammers, her voice quivering. There was a brief silence before your mother responded. “I’ll come by your work, I have some big news.” “No,” you laugh, your voice thick with tears. “Is something wrong? I knew I shouldn’t have taken that extra shift, I’ll come down to the hospital…” Only your family was aware of your leukemia, you didn’t want the media to make a big deal out of something incredibly painful and personal. “Y/N?” Concern came over your mom’s voice after she answered. She’d usually come with you to your appointments, but she had to work a double shift at her job and couldn’t make it. The leukemia is gone, now the only thing you have to worry about is whether or not it’ll come back.Īs you got outside, you took out your cell phone and dialed your mother’s number. Then the water works came, and as you left the hospital, the realization of what you’d been told finally sunk in. It was like you’d been punched in the gut, but the relief came over you not long after. It was another six months before you received the news that you were cancer-free. But life always has to throw a curve-ball, doesn’t it? You didn’t want to be careful, you wanted to enjoy your life. Your cousin had two and a half years of treatment and hospital visits and having to be careful with her activities, and you couldn’t stand it. But after eighteen months you begin to wonder if you’re doomed to just suffer. All you want is to get back to filming, to have that normalcy you craved since you first got that diagnosis. All you want is to return to your life, to be healthy and happy and not have to worry about the cancer’s progression and whether or not you’ll ever recover. You’ve undergone so many treatments, but the cancer is persistent, and it’s frustrating. You have leukemia, the same one your cousin had, but yours is a stubborn bitch to get rid of. Thankfully, your uncle and cousin are in remission, and you can only hope they’ll remain cancer-free. You should’ve seen it coming though, since the illness runs in your family - you grandmother died of pancreatic cancer when you were ten your uncle underwent intense treatment due to an aggressive brain tumor five years later and a cousin of yours spent a good two and a half years battling leukemia not even a year later. While your cast mates are out and about, doing their thing, you’ve been in and out of hospitals, hoping to get rid of the cancer that’s been invading your life for the last eighteen months. ![]()
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