What an emotional and thoughtful read. I'm so happy you had support and love around you. Finding out you have cancer without someone to support you through such a heartbreak diagnosis would have triple the blow.

And yeah, those scary phone calls we get in life...

I remember the night my mother had to call all of her sisters and tell them my Aunt had left this life. I could see her close her eyes, take a deep breath, and call all four of them one by one.