I’ve been on a bloggy break…
It feels like a long time since I posted… or maybe we’ve just been living through some very FULL days lately.
My husband and I traveled to CA last Wednesday, with our three children, so we could spend some time with family and help strengthen and encourage my sister Sarah who was recently (has it only been a week and a half?) with stage four breast cancer.
Here in CA, I have had internet access, but there hasn’t been a lot of time, and quite honestly not a lot of motivation, to blog the last few days. On Thursday, we spent the day at the hospital, helping and then waiting while Sarah went through a surgical procedure to have a port put in, to make chemo treatments much easier. It was a difficult day, but she made it through.
Friday we spent the afternoon in the beauty salon… getting our hair cut short. Sarah’s hospital counselor had recommended it in preparation for the chemo treatments which will surely cause her hair to fall out. Sarah’s lovely friend Jill made arrangements with her stylist for us all to come in and get new hair-dos. It was a fun, together, kind of afternoon… with only a few sad undercurrents. (You will be able to see the write up WITH pictures on Sarah’s health blog soon).
Saturday was spent with family, taking brother and sister pictures, taking family pictures, and wishing it weren’t QUITE so hot! (We apparently brought the Las Vegas weather with us to northern CA). My brother and his wife had to fly back to Nebraska, so we said our goodbyes to them.
Today, Monday, Sarah begins her first chemo treatment. She and I will have a light lunch and head to the doctor’s office. Our mother will be watching all the kids - my three and Sarah’s two. My husband will be heading home to Las Vegas so he can work for a few days, while my kids and I stay here to help through this first round of chemo.
I’ve been thinking about whether to try and post a Monday Challenge … and honestly, my mind is tired. My tummy is nervous, and my body aches (sympathy pains?) just a little in anticipation of the afternoon we have ahead of us. I can only imagine what my sister is feeling (I’ll see her in just a little while), but I’m sure her fear and anxiety is higher than mine. So, all that to say… no Monday challenge today. If you pray, please say a prayer for her around 1:30 pacific time.
I’ll try to be back soon…
June 23rd, 2008 at 11:14 am
Hugs and prayers
June 23rd, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Praying for Sarah…praying for you. I hurt for you.