Spreading Cancer: A Short Story

The moment my life changed… I had a dreadful day at school worrying about my dad going to hospital and I was right to be worried. I arrived home and knew instantly something was wrong. Seeing my mum sobbing hysterically made me feel sick to my stomach, my hands started sweating, I could feel the hairs stand-up on the back of my neck. She said the dreaded C word, which was used by my mother as a code name for cancer, and I knew then my life had changed forever. My dad had very fast spreading Cancer, you could see in my dad’s face he was anxious and that made me feel horrendous because my dad is very laid-back and for him to show emotion I was scared. He got tuberculosis injected into him weekly for 6 weeks and for various reasons this was a

The news was devastating but they tried to pretend that this was natural and this is what we live for, but why my dad? What had we done wrong to deserve this? I worried for months about my dad and how to maintain my school work but I wasn’t able to multi task and the worse he got the worse my grades became. As my dad became sicker and sicker, I could feel myself become ill from the worry it was causing me. He was my hero, my idol, he meant the world to me but what could I do to stop the pain? He started to become more anxious at home and that reflected on our relationship. He began to nag at me for silly mistakes and because my school life was rough he picked up on this and told me that I needed to decide what I was going to do when I left school, but I hadn’t been focusing on this because family means the world to me but, was I wrong? The thought of going home and he pushing me to decide on a career made me feel sick to my stomach it was so much pressure for me to handle, at times I felt that I was at an emotional breakdown, I was a volcano ready to crack and it was difficult. I finally broke down. I knew this new attitude was down to his illness. We went for a McDonald’s to cheer me up because he felt bad for pushing me too hard (which I