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

Huge.

The cancer taught us uncertainty.

I wish I could say Phoebe remained cancer-free forever.

Stories like certainty.

Medicine does not.

She continued surveillance.

Every scan brought anxiety.

One scan showed a suspicious lymph node.