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| Quivering against the Invading Enemy
Janet Kuypers 1/20/17 Watching from afar, I was unable to remove the things from within my mother’s human skin. The skin that held together the woman who took care of her husband and her five children. The skin that held together after the first invasion under her skin, battling breast cancer, cervical cancer. I’ve learned the science — it’s only when certain cells in the body are changed, and start to divide uncontrollably that you arise to destroy us. Sounds simple enough. And with just a few rounds of surgery you weren’t attacking her from under her skin anymore. And after seven years, she was in the clear and didn’t need to check in with the doctor again, until ten years, she felt tired, had a fever, and doctors said it’s funny, with that much cancer in your history, it kind of makes sense that you’d get leukemia. Funny, isn’t it. Something managed to turn some of her cells into dividing fiends, so she just got rid of it. But trying to remove the devil from your blood is another evil, insidious, sticky story altogether. And she wanted to fight, but she saw the way her father fought cancer for six years, and she remembered his agony, and how in the last two weeks of his life she wanted her father to die, just so he was no longer in pain. It sounds cruel, but fighting an enemy in your blood will make the insane seem perfectly reasonable. So remember, expect nothing less when you’re suddenly fighting an enemy from within — when you’re fighting an enemy from under your skin. |
