What Cancer can do...

What Cancer cannot do..."cripple love, shatter hope, silence courage, corrode faith, eat away peace, kill friendship..." but it can't make you reaaaalllly awkward sometimes. Yikes! I had a majorly awkward "So I have Cancer" moment today at Barnes and Noble and I am still slapping myself and saying "what the hell was that?!"

"So how have you been?" Says the nice guy I went to school with that I haven't seen in probably 5 or more years.

"Uh (stammer stammer) I'm good...good yeah I'm good." My face proceeds to turn a fresh tomato red...

"So everything is good?" He looks at me like I'm an alien...

(Thinking to myself that he must have heard, like everyone else through social media that I have Thyroid Cancer, since he is looking at me so understandingly or maybe he is wondering why I am staring desperately at the door)

"Yeah I'm good...busy busy ya know..." Then I blurt out... "IhavebeengettingreadytogotoJohnsHopkinsbecauseIhavecancer."

"What?! Oh."

"Its treatable...I have to get my thyroid out and whatever other treatment they decide on." At this point I want to bolt. Desperately want to say adios and not ever see him again. 

"Well I will be thinking about you and I hope everything goes well with...that."

"Thanks, yeah I'll be fine...so everyone is getting married and all that huh?"

So tomorrow I leave for Baltimore for my surgery...(slap slap "what that hell was that").