My Brother Rick, the Little Shit

A Slice of Kindness
8 min readFeb 1, 2021

You’re Not Supposed to Lose Your Little Brother

Boy sitting at at table with a birthday cake and party decorations.
Rick’s Birthday Party

Cancer took my brother from me. In September 2019, near his 56th birthday, my brother Rick was diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer. He was connected with a wonderful oncologist, began chemotherapy infusion treatments and kept an incredibly positive attitude. Scans looked good, tumors were shrinking, we were sure he was beating it. The oncologist predicted he…

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A Slice of Kindness

Written by Angela Curry Hartman. Reader. Writer. Librarian. Looking for the good in the world. Lover of daughters, dogs, old things.