Bloodlust

My mom is sick. She can’t stop coughing. She coughs so hard she injures herself, pulls a muscle.

Scans, tests, lung cancer. More scans, more tests, stage 4. More scans, more tests: unknown type, highly anomalous, extremely unusual. Biopsies to determine the type. Type still unknown. Radiation because there’s nothing else they can do. She’s never smoked a…