Overwhelmed...
To be honest, I think this is as much a prayer request as anything else...
In the past 24 hours I've been bombarded with horrendous news. THREE LOTS of horrendous news, to be precise...
The first, which I received last night, was that my cousin, mother of twins 5 days younger than my Gabriel, has breast cancer. She is going in for surgery within the next couple of weeks; they will decide then whether she will need a lumpectomy or a mastectomy. Either way, it doesn't look good. What breaks my heart the most is that she went through ten years of utter torment with fertility problems, and finally had our beautiful girlies, only to turn around and have this happen.
The second is about my uncle. He had not been well of late due to a stomach virus, but had never recovered from it and was getting progressively worse. They finally took him to the hospital yesterday to find his blood pressure to be two hundred something over one-sixty-four; they then discovered that he had had a brain hemorrhage. They do expect him to recover, but his mobility has been affected and it looks to be a long road. My aunt and uncle are very active, love to travel, and run a successful little cafe that has been their pride and joy for the past several years. This is going to be extremely difficult for them to handle.
The third is another cousin, someone who I was very close to growing up but have lost touch with in recent years. They lived down the street from us; I hung around with her daughter, and between the ages of 8 and 14 spent as much time at their house as I did at my own. Apparently she had been having problems with stomach ulcers for an extended period of time, and they decided to do more testing on her. They discovered stomach cancer. She was taken in for surgery, but they basically opened up, took one look, and closed again. There is nothing they can do for her. All I can think of is what a good, kind, and sweet person she has always been and how good she was to me during those first difficult years after I lost my own father to cancer.
Any prayers, good vibes, positive thoughts, anything would be greatly appreciated right now. We're all going to need as many positive thoughts as possible directed our way over the next while.
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