Many of my friends here know about what I went through last year, but for those who don't, I have a thread in the Life Advice forum for the members to see. The day prior to Thanksgiving 2014, my family learned that my youngest aunt's lung cancer (a non-smoking form in which she battled since August that same year) had become terminal, so on Thanksgiving, Mom and I spent several hours seeing her, talking to her, and watching a few clips of Passover 2014. On December 3, 2014, my aunt died at the age of 62 after a five-month battle. Today marks her 64th birthday.

*sigh* And her birthday feels bittersweet. I remember all of the good times I had with her, and I know that she wants me to celebrate her life… But at the same time, how quickly she went from alive and spunky to dead at such a young age in just a few months is still too tough to fathom. I still can't believe that she's gone. I still grieve over this; and losing another family member (one of my cats due to a chronic lung ailment), and my stepsister and mom having health crises (stepsister had to have surgery to remove a [thankfully benign] tumor attached to her thyroid, my mom needing an appendectomy due to appendicitis) makes the grieving more painful.

*sniffle*

Happy birthday, Auntie.