My Mom Lied About Having Cancer

My Mom is a pathological liar

I was twelve years old when I found out my mom was dying of cancer.

My father never cries, but after my mom told us the news, I saw tears in his eyes. My father and I were both devastated.

My mom and I never had a good relationship. She would beat me and insult me a lot, but I was a child and she was my mom, so I was very attached to her. I didn’t want to lose the only mom I would ever have.

I fell into a depression. I lay in bed sobbing all the time and listening to music. I didn’t want to eat or go to school.

I was miserable because my entire life was changing in a horrible way.

I spent the weekend moping around. I ran to my dad for part of it and sobbed to him about how terrified I was for my mom. He echoed everything I said to him and I saw the tears in his eyes again.

We hugged, but it was a poor comfort to me.

I tried to hide my feelings and tears from my mom. She had enough to deal with, having cancer and all.

Strangely, though, she never discussed with us what the plan was. She never told us what kind of cancer she had or what the treatments would be. And when she told us the news, she didn’t shed a single tear. My father and I were devastated by her diagnosis, but she seemed okay with it.

It was only after a few days of moping around did she finally give us more news. The doctor had called. It turned out that he had read the charts wrong. She wasn’t dying of cancer. He had misdiagnosed her.

A part of me was relieved, but I was also furious. Did he understand how much devastation he had put my family through for this careless mistake? How could he diagnose my mom with cancer and make us think she was dying and then just act like it was nothing?

My father and I had been absolutely inconsolable.

I refused to ever see that doctor again. I told everyone who asked that he was a horrible doctor and that they should never see him. If he could carelessly diagnose someone with such a serious disease then he didn’t deserve any patients.

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