Sickness

I may have mentioned in my old blog that one of my friends from MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) has stage 4 breast cancer that has spread to her liver and bones.  She and I were on the leadership team together a few years ago, then she was the coordinator for the 2 years after that.  I'm not in MOPS this year because I didn't sign up over the summer because my kids are all in school/ preschool on Thursdays and you're supposed to take the kids there, too.  Funny how God and his timing work.  Because on Sept. 23rd, we got our baby girl!  Anyways, I plan to go back to MOPS this Thursday.   Well, my friend won't be at MOPS.   Her breast cancer has taken a turn for the worse, and she is having a lot of complications and was sent home from the hospital on Hospice.
I cried all day yesterday, off and on.  She has two children, the same age as my two younger boys.  The thought of those girls growing up without a mother at the ages of 4 and 7 kills me.  It is so heartbreaking.

She was diagnosed in 2009- about 11 months after Dave got sick.  Dave told me that stage 4 breast cancer is brutal in young women. (i.e. 30's and 40's)  Typically from what he sees (he reads the PET scans), they get diagnosed, have treatment, go into remission.  Until it comes back.  Then it's a nasty SOB.  Well, my friend is spunky, strong, funny, determined, etc. so I figured she'd beat the odds.  She was doing well for so long, I thought I was right.  Until I wasn't right.

I've been dealing with sickness getting passed around to all the family members, which sucks.  (But not cancer.)  Also, Dave's gall bladder is acting up (hasn't done this since 2009) and he is probably going to have to have surgery to remove it.  No big deal in most people, right?  Nothing ever goes smoothly for us.  Dave has complicated anatomy around his gall bladder and is going to see the transplant surgeon (yes the liver, kidney, etc. transplant surgeon) for a consult to remove his gall bladder.   They are specialized in working in that area.  He is seeing the best of the best down in Phoenix next week. 

I just can't shake this feeling....and the thought that part of the time Dave and my friend were sick overlapped with each other, and here they are both having issues again at the same time in 2012.

I can't wait for this stupid year 2012 to be over.  It started out so damn bad with getting hit with one bad thing after another, then we got our sweet baby girl, our ray of sunshine through the cloudy B.S. that this year brought us.  And now this.  Crap.

And now I'm crying again...... SIGH....

Well here's some good news:  We are planning on going to Maui in July.  I'm so excited.  And Cambria is eating like a champ...up to 11 lbs 4 oz!