A Dose of Reality

I haven't been blogging too much recently. As some of you already know, our family was thrown for a loop this past week - my mom was diagnosed with uterine cancer. It's a hard thing to accept and even harder for me to write about it. It all came on rather suddenly. During a regular exam a couple weeks ago, her doctor found something suspicious and removed it for biopsy. She had to wait two long weeks for the results and we all had a feeling the news wasn't going to be good. Luckily she has wonderful doctors who are being very aggressive. She is having surgery on Tuesday to remove her uterus. The doctors thinks they were able to catch it early and they told my mom there is only a 14% chance that the cancer has spread to the lymph nodes. So we're all very hopefull that removing the uterus will rid her of the cancer, but we will know more after the surgery. As you can imagine, it's been a tough week for all of us but my mom (always the optimist) has kept her spirits up. She has heard from so many friends and family offering their support and willingness to fly down for the surgery. Although, she jokes they just want to come for the warm weather! My mom probably won't be able to eat much the next few weeks so last night we all went out to a fabulous dinner and really enjoyed ourselves. I think it really helped to keep her occupied and spend time with the grandkids. I mean, how can these kiddos not make you smile:

Hopefully they can help give her strength as she recovers from this difficult surgery. The good part is I get to see my sister next week along with many other family members who will be visiting in the next month. All I ask is for you to keep my mom in your thoughts and prayers. I will post an update Tuesday (or Wed) after the surgery to let everyone know how it went.