Denial
Despite the biopsy's result, my mom staying at the hospital and listening to a lot of doctors repeating how the treatment will go, I kept thinking it was just a bad dream or a mistaken diagnostic. My family filed my soul with peace when I met them at the hospital entrance the day after the news and they were trying to show their support but I was still thinking it was just a nightmare and I would wake up to find my mommy smiling and healthy at home. I had never imagined something like that. Nobody does. Cancer is something you always look at the distance and you can't imagine how big it is until someone in your family gets it. We even have a relative with leukemia before. I denied the illness during the first days, I blocked that part of our lives and saw it like a simple illness to have the courage to show myself as strong as I learnt I had to be since I was a child. My grandma used to say me that I had to be brave and with an strong temperament so that's what I was ...