No One Came to My Husband’s Funeral. They Were All at My Sister’s Engagement Party.

when he couldn’t remember a word, how he still tried to make me laugh with jokes he struggled to deliver, his insistence on celebrating our anniversary even when he could barely sit up, presenting me with a hand-drawn card that simply said, “Forever.”

By the eleventh month after diagnosis, Bobby’s oncologist confirmed what we already knew in our hearts.continue reading …