Week 2

Week 2 was uneventful except that my sister did return to her job as a manger for a Big Apple store with a doctor's note in hand as required.  However, a day and a half later management let her go for an incident that had occurred 4 weeks prior.  “Really now!?!” as she would say.  Imagine the devastation and betrayal she must have felt, especially knowing that she gave the company 150%.  She was constantly on-call to the point where she always put aside her own personal life for the sake of this company, and this is how they reward loyalty by letting a recently diagnosed cancer patient go? 

Her world came crashing down around her on this day.  Thoughts of how to help her husband pay the bills and support their only grandchild of whom they have custody, of how to pay the monthly rent to the landlord (me), of how to search for another place to live before my move to Michigan at the beginning of December, and last but certainly not least ... of how to pay for the soon to be massive hospitals bills went swirling through her head.  She crawled into her bed and cried on this day - something my baby sister never does, not even when our mother and her father passed away from their individual battles with cancer.

A couple of weeks have passed since Armageddon.  My sister has decided that there is nothing within her power that she can do to change her financial situation, so she is letting go of the employment past and moving on with doing the best she can do to increase her odds of survival.  Atta girl!  That’s what mom would want you to do!!