So terribly sorry to hear this. I have lost 4 family members (two uncles and two aunts) to cancer. I have to say as a pharmacist we are trained and taught to empathize not sympathize. When I've lost patients I've been unable to always do this. I literally cried many times watching patients who I've gotten to know very well over the years deal with this. The most sad story is about a fellow who lived three doors down from me. I met him when he came in to get his vaccinations for a wedding of a friend in Mexico. He and his fiance were excited to go and planning to do the same thing the next year. I phoned him about six months later to remind him that he needed his booster shot, and he told me he had just found out that the liver cancer he had beat three years previous had returned and had metastasized and there was nothing left to do. He suffered terribly for 3 months and his fiance will never be the same. He was only 23.
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