I said in my last update that I was going to take a little break and get some rest.

Things haven't gone quite as planned.

Breaking news, there are some crash sites we need to look at.

A couple weeks after my last update, my sister called me late in the evening.

She was with mom.

First we have the Millennium Falcon.

It crashed here three days ago.

Mom was in a lot of pain and thought maybe she should go to the hospital.

Nobody knows how it crashed and how this other ship got wedged into it.

She'd been having stomach pain for months, but the doctors hadn't been able to figure out what was wrong.

We're kind of worried. The next day, I stood next to mom's hospital bed with my dad and my sister.

As you can see, there has been severe damage on the wings.

Listening to the doctor apologized to us in advance for the news he was about to give us.

We just hope that no one inside is dead.

A scan had found a large tumor in mom's abdomen.

It didn't look operable, but we'd need to consult a surgeon to find out what the options were.

Over the next few days, I learned a lot of statistics.

I learned that pancreatic cancer is the second most deadly cancer there is.

Right on the heels of a scary sounding brain cancer.

80% of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer

though it lasts the year, And only 7% of them are around five years later.

I rearranged my work schedule so I could spend half my time at my parents house helping to care for mom.

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