Secret Cancer

After living it up, it was time for a new scan. This time it did not go so well. Just before Christmas the doctor called to tell us that there is some cancer activity on the liver and we are going to need to start chemotherapy again.

We fly to the US for Christmas and when we get back home, my husband starts a new form of chemotherapy called 5FU. He has too have a bag with the chemo on every other weekend and is going to lose his hair. My first thought is we cannot keep this a secret for long. My husband has other plans.

Yup we are going to keep this a secret. Everyone is still working from home so he doesn’t have to meet people in person. He gets a custom wig made which surprisingly looks real. It is the winter time so if he needs to leave the house with the chemo bag around his waist he will hide it under a heavy jacket.

He works from home and the business is going well. He even takes a few business trips to visit different parts of the company. But I am getting more and more depressed. It’s hard to see him with no hair and the chemotherapy is taking a toll on him. When he is not in front of the computer or in front of work colleagues he just looks worn out. I try to talk to him about maybe he is over doing it but he doesn’t listen. He loves to work and it helps keep his mind off of the possibility of dying.