Chicken Soup For The Cancer Survivor's Soul - Plot & Excerpts
In order to laugh, you must be able to play with your pain. Annette Goodheart Bobby was 13, one of nine kids in his Portuguese-American family, with beautiful, thick, silky black hair and liquid expressive eyes. A quiet boy, a polite boy, loved by his teachers and worshipped by his younger brothers and sisters. His family were milkers, living and working on another family’s ranch, eking out their living and taking care of the cows. A loving but strictly religious family, they rose early and worked hard every day just to make ends meet. It was a disaster beyond expression when Bobby was diagnosed with leukemia and later with bone cancer. His parents struggled to contain their grief, worry and fear. His father hid his pain behind a screen of stoicism and unrelenting work. His mother seemed to walk through each day with tears hiding just behind her eyes. They did their chores, then took Bobby in for his treatments, enduring the costs of time, money and uncertainty as best they could. Their love for Bobby was expressed without drama or display, in those silent looks shared when they didn’t think he’d notice and in their bluff assertions to him that they knew he’d recover from this “cancer thing.”
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