I Came Home After Four Years Working Abroad and Found My Wife Starving in Our Backyard—Then My Mother Asked About the Money I Hadn’t Told Her Was Fake

I understood it too well.

PART 7 — PHOEBE GETS HER LIFE BACK

Phoebe’s treatment lasted far longer than six months.

There was no perfect spring morning where doctors said:

“Cancer gone forever.”

Medicine does not owe stories tidy timing.

Her first post-treatment scans showed a strong partial response.

Later, after additional therapy, no active disease was detectable on imaging.