Ten years ago my girlfriend's mom died from Ovarian Cancer. She was treated through many different methods and was a patient of a number of different hospitals. I believe she past away about a year after she was diagnosed, and I believe only a couple months of those were miserable. My girlfriend, the oldest of three, remembers distinctly the pain her mom was in those couple months. She's described to be a few times what it made her feel like, but I am sure that her words will probably never describe the feeling as vividly as the emotions she still holds inside today.

I am most interested in how it still affects her today, ten years later. We've been together for three years, but sometimes I feel like she'll never fully be able to talk to me about these things when they're bothering her. I know she talks to me about them in much more detail than others, but I really wish I could just take the feelings for her - then I could understand completely and maybe know a better way to work through things.