Wow, it's been a little over a year since I've done anything to my blog... A lot can happen in a year, and for my family, a lot has happened.
The good news? He survived. The bad news? He is no longer the same man that helped to raise me. I understand that cancer can change a person and their outlook on life, but to change their beliefs? Give me a break. He's not the first person I've seen go through cancer and sadly I doubt he's going to be the last. We, my brother and sister and myself, were always told growing up that he wasn't like our father, that he wouldn't hurt our mom. When you hear time and time again how someone will never do to their spouse what was done to them in their first marriage, and then they turn around and do it, you tend to loose faith in a person, and respect. Okay so you say that you're not trying to divorce her and leave the family, but you just up and leave one day, make sure you take everything that means anything to you, and expect us to believe that it's because you're trying to become the man you were before the cancer? Right and I have a bunch of flowering money trees sitting on a piece of swamp land just waiting to be harvested. Cancer has become the "go to" excuse for everything. However, the last scan came back clean, does this mean that everyone who has survived cancer can blame it on all of their troubles? I realize my brother is a 28 year old bum who would rather sit on his ass and watch TV all day than do anything productive, but when does that make it okay to say that you had to get out of the house before you "committed a criminal act"? I'm sorry, but grow up. If life was easy we'd have no more poverty, homelessness, drug dealers, murderers, psychopaths, etc., but it's not and all we can do is take one day at a time and learn to live with what the good Lord gave us.
And yes, I am referring to the man that I have called daddy for the last 17+ years of my life.
