All along this journey I have been "complaining" that I am always the youngest and have the youngest children going through this journey. There has been no one to help me and I want to make sure that no one else has to feel this way.... last night my wish came true: I connected with Allie who is three years younger than me and battling breast cancer since early this year. She is doing chemo first and then will have surgery and radiation down the road. My nurse navigator called me last week and asked me if I would be willing to talk with Allison. I was so happy to hear that I would be able to help someone else!! I called Allison last night and it was so easy to talk with her!! We hit it off right away since we know exactly how the other one feels about diagnosis and living with this and still being a mom and wife. I am so blessed to now have someone else to help along the way as well as talk with about the dilemmas of being a young mom and wife. She is such a lively person who had some great questions and I was so thrilled to be able to answer most of them as well as give her the chance to talk to someone who is a few months ahead of her in the treatments. It is so nice since we know many of the same professionals at the Women's Center in Lake Forest Hospital. We also have the similar situation in our chemo rooms where we are always one of the youngest and we are staying positive throughout each treatment. I am so thankful to have Allie in my life and on this journey with me!
I am also so thankful for all the friends and family who have kept me going all this time!! I am in need of keeping some of my loved ones in everyone else's prayers: Grandma Moore is in the hospital in ICU after having a heart attack and finding even more blood clots in her. She is weak and struggling to eat and there are very few options for the doctors which is why I ask for all your prayers for her! My dear friend Wendi who has taken care of the girls during chemo treatments is going in tomorrow morning to have her bladder scoped to find out if there is any cancer or other problems in it. She is rather concerned as we all are and I pray she finds peace in the knowledge she will have after the procedure is done. I also pray for the results to be the best they can be!! She is one of my chosen sisters and I cannot have gotten through this past 8 months without her!! I will be there for her as she has been there for me throughout all of life!!! These are two women that mean the world to me and I want them with me for so many more years to come!!!
School is getting closer!! We just received our letters for each of the girls on who they have as a teacher this year. It was like there should have been a drum role as I was opening each one!!! They are all excited except Sarah surprised us by crying when she figured out that she and Lindsey were in different classrooms... this is the same child who asked me this morning if she could trade with daddy and I so she could have her own room and we could share with Lindsey. She said she was done sharing a room with Lindsey for her whole life!! Oh they are such mysteries!
Happy Tuesday to all!
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