Conversations at Chemo

It’s a funny thing. We end up having these important conversations while he is receiving chemotherapy. It’s a public setting and stressed in its own way. Surrounded by people who are sick or dying or getting well. Caregivers sit at the feet of their loved ones. There are several TV’s on and lots of chatting and joking and movement as nurses check machines and add bags of chemicals and insert IV lines and jam needles into patient’s chests. In the middle of that, almost accidentally, we fall into these profound conversations about our lives, our relationship and our love. Maybe, surrounded by all that living and dying it’s not surprising after all.