A time to be born, and a time to die;

I read an obituary in the newspaper

of a woman born in 1976,

making her younger than both Ed and Amy,

who died of complications after surgery

to put a rod in her femur bone

following breast cancer.

As far as I know,

there are only two main oncology orthopedic surgeons

at the Huntsman Cancer Center.

I’ve been to both of them.

One performed that same operation on me.

When I read that, I thought:

“I bet Dr. Groundland is thinking:

‘Why did this young mother of four children die

and that 82-year-old hag survive?’”

That’s what I thought when I read the obituary.