In a twist of ‘the universe is unfair’, Savannah’s beautiful, vibrant, 27 year old teacher has cancer. It makes me blindingly angry when I think about it too deeply. I can only believe that she will get better and live a long life because living well is the best revenge. Yes, I’m personifying a disease.
Anyway, the only funny thing to come out of this is when I was telling Savannah why she would be having a substitute this semester. We talked about what cancer was and she had some great questions such as ‘is it a germ?’ I answered her questions as best as I could. She took a moment, looked intently at me and asked ‘is there an EXPERT we could talk to about this?’
Sigh…..