You should look into it now. Non-fiction is different than fiction in how it is handled and I don't know that much about it.
Honestly, when my grandmother was sick with lung cancer, it terrified me, didn't know how to handle it. Oddly I was in the hospital the same time she was, and I MADE myself go down and see her. She was in very bad shape by then, and didn't know I was there, but just sitting with her made me feel better. I was 20 and had just beat back blood poisoning (caused by the stupidest thing--my fish tank!) and that made me think, at least briefly, about things.
With Kel's illness, it wasn't an obvious one, no one knew how serious it was except him and me. But he also lived in heavy denial most of the time and refused to talk about it. I didn't push it, either, thinking I was right not to, and... Oh man, I wish I had done alot differently.
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Re: another book
Date: 2007-07-08 06:43 pm (UTC)Honestly, when my grandmother was sick with lung cancer, it terrified me, didn't know how to handle it. Oddly I was in the hospital the same time she was, and I MADE myself go down and see her. She was in very bad shape by then, and didn't know I was there, but just sitting with her made me feel better. I was 20 and had just beat back blood poisoning (caused by the stupidest thing--my fish tank!) and that made me think, at least briefly, about things.
With Kel's illness, it wasn't an obvious one, no one knew how serious it was except him and me. But he also lived in heavy denial most of the time and refused to talk about it. I didn't push it, either, thinking I was right not to, and... Oh man, I wish I had done alot differently.
Always dream big.