Daily Prompt: Symptom

Todays daily prompt word kind of snuck up on me; hit a nerve so to speak. It got me thinking about how our body speaks to us in a language that is not always easy to understand, and can go completely unheard. Silently screaming, until the damage is done. Making the undoing a monumental challenge that leaves you wondering, ‘did I miss something?’ Even though you know the answer is no.

The featured image shows my husband and our children at the beach, he has a bandage around his leg where he had started to experience some pain from the tumor we didn’t know he had. Unbeknown to us at the time, this was the first sign or possible symptom, I guess, that something was wrong. This photo was taken in March 2014, he would be diagnosed in June. We had enjoyed a wonderful first half of the year.