Personal Narrative: Pancreatic Cancer

I literally couldn’t believe it! I just felt numb! As if being told my one parent has cancer isn’t devastating enough, we later found out my father had stage 4 Pancreatic Cancer. I truly wanted to believe this was all a bad dream. That I was going to wake up eventually and my daddy was going to be O.K. Though, this wasn’t a dream and this was really happening! Now, after doing plenty of research and seeing plenty of stories based on Pancreatic Cancer. I knew enough to know, it was terminal and that there really wasn’t anything they can do for this particular type of cancer. So, all we could do at that point was just pray for a miracle! Though, the hardest part of all was we couldn’t even tell my father immediately that he had cancer because we knew he would lose all hope and just give up right there. We wanted him to give it all he had in this fight. Though, it was extremely hard seeing my father fighting for his life every day and yet knowing deep down inside that ultimately this was going to be the most arduous battle of his life! …show more content…
Apparently, they had dealt with other similar cases. Therefore, they wanted to perform this very complex surgery on my father, where they would remove the tumor he had in his pancreas. We still hadn’t told my father that he had cancer, just that they found a tumor. It was a very risky eight-hour surgery, but we knew it had to be done! So, the day finally came and the surgery which lasted what seemed like an eternity; was a success! The doctors removed the tumor and my father was now recovering