Sunday Scribblings: Interview

You’re probably going to find a ton more posts inspired by this site.  Since I’ve recently found it, I’m going through the archives.  This week’s prompt talks about interviews. 

Last year my sister found out she had a very aggressive form of stage III cancer: synovial sarcoma.  By the time they accurrately diagnosed the tumor in her right thigh it was large and deep seeded.  In order to save her leg they would need to do as much chemo and radiation PRE-Surgery as they would post surgery.  The location of the tumor combined with heavy duty meds necessary to kill the abomination growing in her made it necessary to have a full time care-giver, so neither she nor my mother were able to work for most of 2008 and 2009.  Because of this it was necessary to have a benefit to try to raise money for simple support such as paying their rent, electricity, transportation to and from doctors appointments and the hospital, food, etc.  While prepping for the benefit we were lucky enough to get some publicity from a local journalist who specializes in human interest pieces. 

What I had thought would be a piece on the strength and hope of my sister and mother ended up being more a piece on the freakish tendancy I have to experience “sympathy pains” whenever my sister (who is also my twin) experiences anything intense or traumatic.  It was quite an interesting interview on a phenomenon I’ve had all my life.

I guess the point of the Sunday Scribblings is to write about the topic and all I’ve really done is give some background and lots of links, but I’m not really sure what more I can say, so, follow the links… there’s lots of writing there (and most of it is mine).