I tend to keep my life offline, only sharing a bit with a few that I feel comfortable around. We've all seen/heard people that make their entire existence everybody's problem to endure.

Things are getting a bit tougher. We are just waiting on the day we have to travel to so see an ENT for my Wife. Her Dentist noted something on her soft palette during her last visit, with the suggestion she have it looked at. She is now fretting herself with worry, not that I blame her.

It might be Cancer, which would make it her third since 2019, and now she is weighing in with the finality of life. It may be nothing, which is the whole reason to visit the ENT, but it's still taking a toll on her, which means that also gets carried over to me.

She is more irritable and getting more passive/aggressive in some of the things she says, which I try to ignore for the most part or will call her out on it if she's heading too far off the path. Sometimes, it's just better to let the Bear do what it's going to do.

I get it, I really do. The first two times were an ordeal of their own. Lots of Doctor visits, road trips, surgeries, treatments, medications and all the things that tie them together. That alone is exhausting.

If you add the type of Cancer, the stage it was discovered and long-term prognosis, it really does mess with you. Since she made it to her "considered cancer free" milestones for both, it's easy to feel as though you're done with it.

The recent Death of my Friend is still pretty fresh, and even though she wasn't there for his final breath, I'm sure she felt it. He was only a few months older than her. That has to weigh heavy on a body.

We have not told our Adult Children yet, and it's up to her if/when that might happen.

In the meantime, carry on...