This has been a tough journey and it's not over but we celebrate an amazing milestone today. LAST DAY OF CHEMOTHERAPY!! Just amazing how fast it flew by once we got started. Tomorrow is the last day of radiation and then on Monday we'll drop by some treats for the wonderful team in oncology and radiation. What a tremendous circle of people.
You should see their faces light up when they come in to Mom's room. She STILL manages to smile and try to make people smile as well. She truly is an inspiration to so many people.
So what's next? Well - she'll be spending the next month recuperating and that will probably mean a lot of sleeping. she is...well..exhausted. And rightfully so. She still fights sleeping so much but I told her today she needs to listen to her body and allow it to heal. She's been bombarded with poisons and toxic chemicals to fight the cancer and it's destroyed a lot of good things BUT the human body is an amazing creation - God made it to come back. So she'll get some much needed rest. I told dad to let her sleep but it's so hard for him right now. They have a routine, you know. And breakfast just isn't breakfast when Mom is asleep. But he said he'll do his best. So Dad, thank you for all of YOUR sacrifices during this time. Breakfast alone isn't much fun we know but the gift you are giving mom in allowing her to rest is priceless. Your gift to her does not go unrecognized!
For those of you who know them, they are two of the most connected people I have ever known. They still hold hands, they still snuggle.
We should all be so lucky. I bet most of us are, but we're just not taking advantage of it like mom and dad. I hope you have a circle of life around you - not just a circle of friends but of LIFE. I hope you have someone's hand to hold.
Kahlil Gibran, the Lebanese-American poet and writer once wrote, "Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course". It truly does elevate the spirit.
There is much in this world to bring us sorrow. So many experiences and events to write sad, mourning songs about. For so many there is a symphony of requiem's playing as the background music in their lives. There is so much pain and even today there are so many of us hurting - but perhaps we can learn just a little bit from my parents.
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