“Now I have to worry about my mother’s death from cancer at 63.”
Good luck. There are some things we can do, but as a doctor told me, “It mostly depends on who you picked for parents....”
In my case, all my family on my Dad’s side lived into their 90s (except Dad, who died in Vietnam). On my Mom’s? They lived long but all had cancers and heart issues. Didn’t kill them, but crippled them.
“except Dad, who died in Vietnam). “
I’m sorry to hear that. I can only imagine what that would be like, even though I did spend two years of my childhood with my father in Vietnam watching Walter Cronkite giving the casualty reports every night. Part of mine and my father’s difference in lifestyle (for lack of a better term) was his two tours in Korea and two in Vietnam. Even though I retired from the Navy I had no experience remotely like four combat tours.