The doctor simply said, “Michele, it’s not good.”
In that moment, at 8:30 a.m. on Nov. 19, 2010, Michele Cushatt’s life changed forever. She went from being, as she described herself, a “confident, somewhat assured Christian woman” to “being absolutely undone.”
There is something about the word “cancer” that can turn what we thought was cement under our feet into sand.
Suffering is like that. It’s a difficult topic to even discuss. There’s no way to put a positive spin on pain.