"For Rick and Linda there was also, at the end of that terrible week of waiting and worry, an odd feeling of relief that it had happened to them, and theirs. Anything was better than uncertainty; the waiting had been intolerable, the fear of the unmentionable had almost come to be a desire for the unmentionable; its certainty, its mention, was at least a resolution. To finally hear the word (leukaemia) spoken aloud provided a focus for worry, a definite enemy that they could now face, and fight, together, as a family." [13] Before leaving the subject of language, let me touch on a recently articulated concern about the language and discourses of militarism and how these may influence Nursing.