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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock Newa Staff Writer
The emotional hurdles faced by the families of cancer patients can loom almost as high as the wall of mortality the patient has to confront. Both have to learn how to live in the face of death. Both must learn to look at death and smile.
Different people use different weapons to battle the despair that the impending death of a loved one brings. But many of the arms brought to bear against hopelessness are the same.
“I used to wonder how people could stand it—knowing they were going to die,” said Pat. Acute myelocytic leukemia, a form of cancer that attacks the bone marrow, killed her husband Steve last year, 12 months after the disease was diagnosed.
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