Ladder
by Joseph Bardin

In Memoriam, Bernadeane

This is where we did not want to be. For ten years Bernie’s lived with breast cancer, and we could always say but she is doing well, living her life, but now her back pain gets so bad she can’t get out of bed and when she can it is with a walker. And we can no longer look at it as separate from the cancer, since lesions have appeared on her spine.