You can brace yourself for the inevitable crash, but you will still find yourself in shock at how much pain the impact causes. I learned today that my dad's tumors are growing, which means his pill is no longer doing the trick. It's now clinical trials, or IV chemo.
I generally have a quick convo with him 2-3 times a week, and that call today was so much harder to make. Not because I didn't want to talk to him, but because I found myself not knowing exactly what to say, or how to say it. When mortality becomes the proverbial elephant in the room, it's hard to just shoot the shit like we normally would. He's going to check into the clinical trials for his cancer mutation.