Summer Stress and Some Are Stress
This summer is especially brutal it seems. Some days we can hardly catch our breath the humidity is so high. The stress of the heat makes it difficult to deal with other stresses in our lives.
The news that my beautiful grandaughter has a recurrence of infiltrating cancer cells in her brain has hit me like a ton of bricks. We have hope because she can return to taking the Temodar in a lower dose and hope that it takes care of these little monsters. We hope. She has the best doctors for which we could hope. She has the most wonderful mother in the world who has nurtured her and helped her grow into a strong wonderful young woman. But I ask myself many times why does it have to be my beautiful girls that have gotten hit with this rotten disease. It's easy for me to wish it could have happened to me or to some low-life ditch dweller who doesn't give a shit about his/her life. But wishes will not make this go away.
Rebecca feels numb and puzzled because she feels absolutely great. She is looking forward to returning to college at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) in September for her second year. The first year started off a little tentative and turned out to be spectacular for her. She couldn't have asked for a better room mate than Rachel. She and Rachel are polar opposites but they found common ground in humor and enjoying life. (Rachel must have some amazing parents, too!)
When we raise our children we have such high hopes for their future. We as a family have always encouraged and supported Rebecca in whatever she wanted to do. She is so talented and so beautiful. How many young people do you know who are terriffic writers, have superb artistic talent (never without a notebook in hand) and surprise you with how well they can sing, act and dance without ever having had any lessons. Couple that with the fact that Rebecca is just a fabulous, sweet, kind, down-to-earth girl and that's our Rebecca.
The world is a better place for having her in it. What can G-d be thinking to allow such a beautiful person to have to fight such a battle as cancer. When she was first diagnosed and Julianne created a Caring Bridge site for her, I started looking at other Caring Bridge pages and was dumbfounded to see how many children and young adults are stricken with and lose their lives to a devastating disease. It breaks my heart. Parents weep uncontrollably for the loss of their beautiful babies, no matter what age they are when they get their wings. What a terrible thing we see happening.
Brain Cancer will continue for the rest of her life to be a battle she is striving to stay ten steps ahead of. And just because she is symptom free does not mean the monster isn't lurking just waiting for the opportunity to grow and destroy.
I lose patience with greedy, whiny people and don't tolerate other people's bad moods, self-pity and lack of compassion. As we say in the South, "I just wanna slap the shit out of 'em!"
Please hug your loved ones tight, remember that everyone has a battle of some kind going on in their life and be kind to one another every minute of every single day. And don't make me want to slap you!
The news that my beautiful grandaughter has a recurrence of infiltrating cancer cells in her brain has hit me like a ton of bricks. We have hope because she can return to taking the Temodar in a lower dose and hope that it takes care of these little monsters. We hope. She has the best doctors for which we could hope. She has the most wonderful mother in the world who has nurtured her and helped her grow into a strong wonderful young woman. But I ask myself many times why does it have to be my beautiful girls that have gotten hit with this rotten disease. It's easy for me to wish it could have happened to me or to some low-life ditch dweller who doesn't give a shit about his/her life. But wishes will not make this go away.
Rebecca feels numb and puzzled because she feels absolutely great. She is looking forward to returning to college at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) in September for her second year. The first year started off a little tentative and turned out to be spectacular for her. She couldn't have asked for a better room mate than Rachel. She and Rachel are polar opposites but they found common ground in humor and enjoying life. (Rachel must have some amazing parents, too!)
When we raise our children we have such high hopes for their future. We as a family have always encouraged and supported Rebecca in whatever she wanted to do. She is so talented and so beautiful. How many young people do you know who are terriffic writers, have superb artistic talent (never without a notebook in hand) and surprise you with how well they can sing, act and dance without ever having had any lessons. Couple that with the fact that Rebecca is just a fabulous, sweet, kind, down-to-earth girl and that's our Rebecca.
The world is a better place for having her in it. What can G-d be thinking to allow such a beautiful person to have to fight such a battle as cancer. When she was first diagnosed and Julianne created a Caring Bridge site for her, I started looking at other Caring Bridge pages and was dumbfounded to see how many children and young adults are stricken with and lose their lives to a devastating disease. It breaks my heart. Parents weep uncontrollably for the loss of their beautiful babies, no matter what age they are when they get their wings. What a terrible thing we see happening.
Brain Cancer will continue for the rest of her life to be a battle she is striving to stay ten steps ahead of. And just because she is symptom free does not mean the monster isn't lurking just waiting for the opportunity to grow and destroy.
I lose patience with greedy, whiny people and don't tolerate other people's bad moods, self-pity and lack of compassion. As we say in the South, "I just wanna slap the shit out of 'em!"
Please hug your loved ones tight, remember that everyone has a battle of some kind going on in their life and be kind to one another every minute of every single day. And don't make me want to slap you!
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