Becoming Coco

Originally posted on Medium March 25th, 2025. Please see my Medium for more the most recent posts and to support my writing!  https://filmgirlphilosopher.medium.com/blue-butterfly-goes-home-c3a67f4ab42e   As I walked down the hospital corridor toward the palliative care unit, where my mom is coming to spend the remainder of her life in comfort, I heard a man on the phone. He was explaining, almost in disbelief, how his loved one had a tumor, and how they’d just found out. Then, the night after, they had to rush her to the ER… and she went downhill so fast. “It all just happened so fast,” he said with a quiet acceptance of someone who’s had to explain this to countless family members in the last 24 hours. In that moment, I felt a connection with him. The same thing is happening to us. Sometimes it just does happen that fast. My mom just found out she had cancer a month ago, she had emergency surgery and then had to wait 3 weeks for chemo in order to recover. We moved her from I...