My Mother's Prognosis

I just found out that my mother most likely has ovarian cancer. She had pain, they did an MRI, there's a mass, they'll be operating. She's young for cancer, in her early 50s, and this is one of the more serious kinds of cancer. She's always been really healthy, eating lots of veggies and biking and hiking and generally enjoying a really wholesome life. It doesn't seem fair--but then, nothing ever really is.

My parents are currently teaching abroad at an international school in India. They don't have health insurance because they're in India. And because they don't have health insurance, the medical care will be done in India, where such things are less expensive.

I don't even know how to feel about this. It's hard, because there's no real prognosis or certainty about the long-term treatment plan at this point. Mostly very worried. And they're way on the other side of the world, so it's not like I can hop on a Greyhound bus to go keep them company for a while.