I Worked Nights and Nursed My Husband Through Cancer – The Week He Was Declared Cancer-Free, He Asked for a Divorce, but His Doctor Stopped Me and Said, ‘There’s Something You Should Know’

Some mornings, I sat in our driveway after work because I was too tired to remember why I had driven home.

Theo would squeeze my hand and say, “When this is over, I’ll spend the rest of my life making it up to you.”

I never wanted repayment.

I just wanted him alive.

And now he was.

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I turned toward him.

He looked at me.

“You heard him, right?”

“I heard.”

No smile, no tears, no hand reaching for mine.

Dr. Kahn went over Theo’s follow-up plan while I wrote everything down.

Lists had become my favorite form of panic. If I could put something on paper, I could pretend it was under control.

Dr. Kahn finally stood.

“I’ll give you two a minute. The nurse will bring the last forms.”