Imagine a loved one going into the doctors office and learning that he or she has colo-rectal cancer. Now imagine that they are told it has already spread to other areas inside of their body. Can you imagine the scene, the conversation? Can you even fathom understanding or remembering the rest of the conversation after you heard the words, "You have metastatic cool-rectal cancer." I know I can't, and I work in this crazy world of...

Called my fathers phone Thursday evening to check in on him. My mother answered the phone and I asked her how he was doing, her response, your father is getting annoyed with me. I think he is doing fine. She turned the phone over to my father and he begins to explain, "Hey, your mother asked me what I wanted to eat and I told her an egg. She made me some toast and I didn't...