I don’t know where to start...
So, I didn’t find out through my aunt. I found out through her daughter’s husband. He texted us with the info cause he thought that we should know and they are worried and hope that it goes well. But he said that she didn’t want a lot of people to know or make a big deal out of it.
My aunt is in her 70’s and having a major surgery to remove a small tumor in her stomach. (So basically she has cancer? I don’t know if it’s benign?) It’s at the end of the month.
I’m feeling a lot of things besides worried for her health too. She has never been open about a lot of things. She is nice but hard to get close to. I would say that her and I get along really well and she never said one time that she thinks of me like a daughter. Which made me happy. She lives in FL still and I’m in CA. So every time I go to FL I see her but we don’t chat on the regular. Just updates sometimes like during the holidays. Like in Valentine’s Day she texted my sister and I Happy Valentine’s Day and I replied.
I’m upset that she didn’t want to tell me, but at the same time I can understand that she doesn’t want a lot of people to know and call her up because that’s a lot on her mentally. She has anxiety but is from a time where you weren’t really allowed to show it.
I’m worried about the surgery cause of her age too. Plus I don’t live near her anymore and the last time I was in FL to see her was 2018. What if that ends up being the last time I saw her? I am going to FL in late April, so I hope I will be able to see her and she is recovering.
Anyway, I’m sorry that my story about this is all over the place. I felt like I didn’t know the logically order to tell you guys the info. I just feel like I can’t talk to anyone in real life about this. I feel like I can’t really tell my aunt that I know, but I can’t talk to my sister about it either. She doesn’t know and I normally talk to her about family shit.
Tumbleweed
