grace613

First of all I am so sorry to hear that you are sick and that it was so sudden. Now that I work in a hospital as a nurses aid I understand things from a different perspective- at least the suffering side of things, and the fact that people don't want to spend their last moments in the hospital....But my grandfather who I was very close to did something similar when I was 10. No one in my family knew that he had prostate cancer except for one of my aunts who was an RN. My little brother and I used to go to his house every day after school and I remember thinking he was acting differently. Next thing I knew he was in the hospital in the ICU and I wasn't able to see him because I was too young- according to my parents. He died two weeks later and I never got to say goodbye, which has stuck with me to this day and has been very painful. I know that sounds selfish, because he was the one suffering but I just didn't understand as a child. I guess my question for you is....respectfully....how are you coping with knowing that your family and the people who love you will be blindsided by this? I guess I would just like to know that perspective first hand.

Just wanted to say I've been following your comics for a few years now and they never fail to crack me up. Thanks for the laughs and I love the portraits you've done as well. I might have to ask you to do one in the future.