It's funny how life can pick you up...

...dust you off and then kick you in the balls. It seems that a lot has been going pretty well in my life lately (knock on cyber-wood). Actually it seems that my family, who has had a rough go of it for the last little while, was just getting over that hump. Things were really starting to look positive. I should have known better...

...I got a message from my Dad last night that sounded serious. So I called, thinking that perhaps my Grandmother had gotten sick. Anyway, not to drag it out and add suspense to the story...I found out my father was diagnosed with Cancer. Wow, that's a weird thing to hear. Not that I don't know it's all over the place but when it hit you in your family...it's a shock to say the least.

He was diagnosed with Bowel Cancer..it sounds bad but, apparently it's one of the more operable types of Cancer and it was detected pretty early...so that good...right?

I think the worst thing is the feeling of not knowing what could happen. I hate the thought of my Dad being scared...he's really quite calm about it but you know he's got to be a bit nervous.

What do you say to your Dad to make him feel safe? How do you comfort the man who raised you? I guess I can just do what he would do...I'm sure he'd be happy to see that he's made a good impression...hell if I was half the man he is I'd be a great man.

Okay...

Drinking on a week night is not a good idea...blah.