It might be cancer.....but it might not be

My dad had the lymph node in his neck removed this morning. Dr. Mathews suspects that it is cancer, but doesn't want us to jump to any conclusions, because it might not be. But he couldn't offer anything else that he thought it was. We should get Pathology reports back by Monday to know for sure, and then the process begins by seeing how bad it is, what kind it is, and a treatment option.

People beat cancer everyday. It might NOT be cancer, but most likely it is. But people live from cancer, they don't die unless you catch it late. And he's been mostly healthy so I can't believe that it's a late catch. And his blood work was fine. If it was bad it seems that his blood work would have shown something, like a high or low white cell count, right?

My mom is falling to pieces. There is nothing I can say to make it better. She lost her mother and her father to cancer. Her and my dad will have been married for 33 years on April 22nd. And she's falling to pieces. I can't fall to pieces in front of her. I have to put on a brave face. But, even knowing that people beat cancer everyday, and it might NOT be cancer, I'm still falling to pieces. He is my daddy. He has always been there for me. Through all the stupid decision, and all the stupid mistakes, he was always there. He may not have been there happily, but he was there. And now he might have cancer. And I'm falling to pieces.