Losing Parents to Cancer | Episode #47 - Ben Simmons (Pt. 1/2)

On Part one of our episode, both Ben and I discuss our experience losing our parents to cancer at a young age. Ben lost his mom to cancer and I lost my father to cancer in our early 20s. Ben and I discuss processing the initial diagnosis, how his mom had it for more than fifteen years, getting used to the cancer process, results weekends, how things worsened toward the end and how we are both very open about it, how discussing them is a way of keeping them alive, how people guilt themselves on things they could have done differently before their family member pass, the coincidence of how the two times I drove them to the hospital we received the diagnosis, how you replay the narrative of what happened over and over, receiving the final diagnosis the day we found out they were going to pass, how our parents actually passed away on December 19th and 20th and what the first Christmas was like, the moment we watched them pass, and the moments afterward. Thank you for tuning in and hope you enjoy the show. Send us a textThoughts shared on the podcast are purely our own and do not represent the views of the Anglophone South School District or the relevant jurisdictions associated with my guests.