I was stunned, no shocked. No, I felt this feeling, I had never felt before, an indescribable feeling. Mixed emotions, of sadness, hopelessness, like everything was ripped away from me in a heartbeat. It felt like my mind was racing at 100 miles per hour about everything, the what-seemed-to-be normal day, up until the Docotor called, and I couldn't get my mind to focus on one thing. When my Aunt Rachel walked in to take me to the hospital, she found me crying with my back to a wall. I can't imagine myself looking like that but she never lies. On the car ride to there, it replayed over and over again in my head, "we found cancer cells."
When we got there we told them who we were and who we were here to see. The nice lady at the counter told us to go down a hall, make a left towards the elevators and my dad was in the first door on the right.
When we got into his room I immediately ran up to my dad and started hugging him. I don't think that I have ever missed him so much in my life before now. I knew that he saw how sad and scared I was by the way he looked at me. I couldn't hold it in much longer and soon I was just sobbing on his shoulder like I haven't seen him in years.
The doctor came in about an hour after my Aunt and I had arrived,it seems like time goes by so fast when your caught up in the moment. I took a seat next to my dad and Aunt so that I could listen to the doctor.
"Mr. Crest, we need you to come down the hall with us so that we can run more tests. We don't want to strain you anymore than necessary so we are going to wheel you down in the bed." Next thing you know it 3 nurses come in and start wheeling my dad away. Before I could even think I blurted out, "Can I come?"
The nurses all turned around and a short woman with dirty blonde hair and dark brown eyes said, "I'm sorry, we are going to do another full body scan and if you come you could get radiation in your system." I was sad that I couldn't watch my dad but I turned around and went back to my seat next to my Aunt. It took them a long time but when they came back they had answers. The doctor followed my dad in and pulled up a stool.
"Mr. Crest, we have found out the kind of cancer you have. You have Lung Cancer. Do you smoke, do drugs or anything within that nature?"The doctor seems so calm, how can this be? Anyway, I knew my dad's answer, why would he smoke,there is no point in it what-so-ever.
"Yes doctor. I used to smoke."
