So then, this blog's been taking up space for awhile now, nearly as long as we've known that my 23 year old brother has a terminal brain tumour. I've not known when or how to start: there's all sorts of things you find yourself writing: a few sketches here, some swear words in huge marker scrawled across some paper, diary entries blurred from tear-stains. But the normal stuff continues too: to-do lists, week plans, recipes, postcards containing silly messages sent to each other, incomprehensible post-it notes. Our life continues pretty much as normal, and yet not (was it ever normal to begin with?!) Tragic perhaps, but bizarre, surreal, and hilarious too, not least because my brother is one funny chappy! And then of course, there's the
why I feel I should write: carthasis sure, but we're just one more family going through a fairly mundane tragedy. I don't think I've got any particular insights at all. Perhaps that is one reason why it's taken me so long to start the blog.
But yesterday Sam (the Brother) was in a surprisingly good mood. Nothing unusual happened: we went to the swimming pool with our Mum, Sam told us some 'hilarious' anecdotes about wheelchairs (!), and I just realised how much I want to record all these little moments, the things that make us laugh in the middle of all the strange and scary nonsense. Who knows how it'll go. We'll see.
Here's a cartoon I did right at the beginning, when I realised how little I knew about radiotherapy. becca xx
