Health is always more important than work.

Family is always more important than work.

I’ve always understood it intellectually.

Today it really hit home.

My father has all the pre-cursor indicators of  liver cancer, unless the treatment for hepatitis C, which has a 50% success rate, works. He’s probably going to go through with the treatment –  a year of weekly injections that is going to make him feel sick all the time. We had a long internet chat today. I want to be home. Really. But my parents said that there’s not much I can do right now even if I go back. My dad’s not in any real danger, at least right now, since they caught the sickness in the earlier stages. But I still want to be with them.