The diagnosis was made official today – liver cancer, inoperable. Doctors are giving my Ninong 3 months to 1 year to live depending on the cancer’s response to the medication. We’ll be flying out to visit next week. I’m looking forward to seeing everyone together again.
With all that has happened I’ve come to realize that this has been the year where everything has come together for me. My two countries. My two hometowns. My two languages. My past and my present. My fears and my future. What my family has given me and what they need of me.
Amidst the flurry of activity that has occured over the last six months and that which is to come of the next six months I find an undeniable, inexplicable core of strength that allows me to move forward knowing that I”m becoming who I am to supposed to be.
I’ll always remember 2006 as the year I finally became a man.
