Personal Narrative: The Four Stages Of Cancer

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To begin with cancer is disease in which abnormal cells are being divided uncontrollably and destroy the body tissue. There are four total stages of cancer and of course the worse one is the advanced stage. This stage means that the cancer has spread to other organs and or parts of the body. Therefore, having cancer itself is a hard condition to deal with and cure. If I was in the husband’s shoes who is dealing with his wife at advanced stage of cancer and not being able to pay with only given two weeks of life is devastating. Being in his situation is a struggle because he is not only trying to stay strong for his wife but also for his three kids. As the man, he is it is hard to keep himself together but he must because he cannot show his …show more content…
All her three children are going to be facing a hard time. Even at this point when the mom is still alive they see her not being herself and always being sick. Although she is sick she still alive and around them but to no longer see her it will be atraumatic experience for all three. It will be difficult for all three but as the twelve-year-old I feel he/she must be able to understand a little more of what is going. The twelve-year old see what his mom and family are going through because he can see his mother not being ok and his father being anxious trying to find a solution. Since he is the oldest he is going to have to step up to the plate and help his father out with his siblings. Emotionally it will affect him watching his mother sick and know that there is no cure and not being able to pay for the treatments. The nine-year old is still young but can understand somewhat of what is going on. At that age, there is going to be a lot of questions and maybe his parents won’t want him to know exactly what is going on which will leave him/her with mystery. The three-year old is going to take the must affect because he/she is still so young and at the age children are still more attached to the mother. that child is still dependent on his mother always and attached. The toddler is still so young to even understand what is going on or to even question the situation. Although the toddler is young he can sense that his mother is ill and that she is not being able to care for him/her completely. That is something the toddler will not understand that why is she no longer caring for him like she would. When the mother dies, the toddler is going to clueless of why he/she no longer sees her around. Which will make the toddler question her absence and maybe even think that the mother abounded them but at that age it is hard to understand. The younger child will take a traumatic effect