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My Secret For Handling Grief 💔

she had this unique form of cancer called CLL and this is usually a cancer of old age where you get diagnosed with it and you end up dying of something else other than that cancer but she had a unique more aggressive form of clll where they needed to really ramp up treatment and her treatment took a toll on her body like she did not look the same post treatment she did not feel the same but it was all in the hopes of curing this cancer and I remember very vividly I was I was going to Memorial Sloan ketering hospital to pick her up one day and she actually fell waiting for me at the waiting area so the doctor came down and talked to me and said maybe we should keep her observation for a day or so um but overall she's doing great she's just very weak from the treatment and he shook my hand in that moment and said she's cured there's no more cancer in her body now we just got to get her to recover from all these treatments and that's the greatest news anyone can hear your hopes 10 out of 10 and just a few short days later her weakness got so severe that she got uh a very unique type of bacteria called gram negative in her blood causing gram negative sepsis spread throughout her body she required the use of presser medication to artificially raise her blood pressure to prevent her organs from dying and it didn't work and unfortunately she lost her life and one of the hardest moments there was watching my father go through this who with my mom sacrificed their lives to bring us to the United States as immigrants gave up their lives he went to medical school for a second time in his life she went to University after having a PhD in Russia to learn English and be able to teach students math here in the states it it was um it was painful to watch my dad go through it so I think for the first few months my focus was more on him than it was even on myself there will be a lot of people listening right now that are maybe in the throws of that grief or the throws of their own sadness or depression for whatever reason right and it's um when you're in the midst of the storm when it's it's hard to see any way out and you said something super interesting which is you said you realize that like action comes before motivation y if I if I'm someone that's in that situation right now and I'm listening what would you say to that person put on your shoes they'll you'll go somewhere doesn't matter where you'll go gy not Jim walk dog park you can go to a dog park without a dog it's therapy the biggest therapy that I think I've ever had and I've gone through traditional therapy was going to dog park with my dog after my mom passed away it's such a weird thing but animal therapy is real

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