Losing the Battle

The dreaded news has come and I was sitting there, just sitting across him and staring at him, in unexplainable grief and helplessness. 

I wanted to talk to him, to comfort him, but at the moment, silence was all I can afford. I couldn’t quite fight back the tears. I’m scared, so scared to lose Lolo. 

Lolo’s pharyngeal cancer has spread to his lungs. It has grown profound and cobalt therapies can no longer control it. Every pill, every treatment that claims to stop the pain, has done nothing for him.

He’s dying.