Today Madi had her follow up, we are now moving to 6 month MRI's... Dr. Lamkin feels there is no reason to worry about the tumors returning. We need to breath and thank God.
This has been a rough two years with so much pain, struggle and loss, but it has also been amazing to see what a wonderful village we have around us.
Yesterday we played our first kickball game in honor of our dear friend Courtney. The loss of him haunts me. He loved on my girls from day one. When Madi was going through treatment he would show up with breakfast for us out of the blue. He didn't have money, he just gave, from the heart. He was such a good soul. Telling my girls he was gone was so very hard, he is so very young and they loved him. Summers off to me for so long meant coming here to PDX and hanging out with Pops for the day while JB worked. The void is huge. But... there is always a but...
I have seen my love stop being angry, sad and frustrated and appreciate the life we have. His feelings and mine of sadness are real and reasonable. Looking though and seeing that we are all so blessed has been a reminder that we need to live in the wonderful, small, amazing moments we have each day.
I asked Madi a couple of weeks ago if she ever gets mad about her cancer diagnoses. Her reply: "No, because we got to see so much good out of it..." um.. she is 11... she blows my mind. Both my girls do, they are strong, wise, loving and amazing. How do they do it?, I will never know.
As we enter another summer my wish is for a year of health and peace. Thank you to our village, you are all so amazing and we are so thankful for all you do.
We got this....
This has been a rough two years with so much pain, struggle and loss, but it has also been amazing to see what a wonderful village we have around us.
Yesterday we played our first kickball game in honor of our dear friend Courtney. The loss of him haunts me. He loved on my girls from day one. When Madi was going through treatment he would show up with breakfast for us out of the blue. He didn't have money, he just gave, from the heart. He was such a good soul. Telling my girls he was gone was so very hard, he is so very young and they loved him. Summers off to me for so long meant coming here to PDX and hanging out with Pops for the day while JB worked. The void is huge. But... there is always a but...
I have seen my love stop being angry, sad and frustrated and appreciate the life we have. His feelings and mine of sadness are real and reasonable. Looking though and seeing that we are all so blessed has been a reminder that we need to live in the wonderful, small, amazing moments we have each day.
I asked Madi a couple of weeks ago if she ever gets mad about her cancer diagnoses. Her reply: "No, because we got to see so much good out of it..." um.. she is 11... she blows my mind. Both my girls do, they are strong, wise, loving and amazing. How do they do it?, I will never know.
As we enter another summer my wish is for a year of health and peace. Thank you to our village, you are all so amazing and we are so thankful for all you do.
We got this....