Holding All the Aces: Memoir of my sister and best friend

.Never get yourself in a position where they can force your hand – unless you are holding all the aces, in which case, you should be calling the shots. That’s card-talk. “I just got off the phone with your sister. She asked me to talk to you.” My mind swirled. What did the gynecologist who had done my sister’s hysterectomy need to tell me? “I got the final pathology report back from her fibroid tumor. Turns out this wasn’t a fibroid. Pat has leiomyosarcoma, a very deadly form of cancer.” From that moment on, our lives would never be the same.