(For those who know the movie Indian Summer...) Mom had a good day today. She so needed that after the craziness of yesterday. She is determined to get her next chemo treatment! I think that is what motivated her. Dr. Anjani stopped by to visit (which I guess he rarely does) and said he couldn't believe how incredible she looks! And then she threw up this evening.....but like I told her, we take the bad with the good. Don't focus on the bad as the outcome of the day!!! Still in the hospital. Will probably be in until Thursday or Friday. Next chemo on Monday. For our praying friends and family, she's having a difficult time with her heart rate. It keeps staying way up there...pray it will be controlled.
You know, I walked out of the hospital today and realized that there are people all around me with various signs of cancer. Some have lost their hair, some with deformities from the disease, some barely holding on...It amazes me that I didn't see them when we first arrived. Bobby and I talked about how everyone looked so healthy, so energetic, so full of life....but they all couldn't have. I think that we saw what we needed to see. HOPE. We needed to see life. We were blinded from the reminders of the disease...but I see it now. I have a friend who said being here would be hard on me....she's right... This is the mecca for cancer, people travel from miles to be here, to try to find exactly what we are trying to find...more time. Maybe just one more day than we had, maybe a week, a month or even 12 years...time.
Yeah for the good day!
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