One two one two, this is just a test

When my week has been thorny, I avoid this space like it is an awkward phone call I know I have to make sooner or later.

And today, I'm really glad I didn't post every day, bitching about how I'm living so far away from so many of my best friends, and about how I haven't heard anything from the college I applied to, and about how maybe I'll get a real job because I have utterly failed at self-employment, about how being the parent of a 3-year-old with a strong personality is a hard fucking job, about how that job is made harder when someone suggests my daughter needs treatment by a mental health professional, about how we expected to close on the house we inherited from Mom only to have another last minute delay, about how....

I'm glad I didn't go into all that.

On Thursday, I got a call from my grandmother and my mom's sister telling me that my other aunt was undergoing surgery that evening because she had been diagnosed with colon cancer. They were hoping they had caught it early, but the surgery revealed that the cancer was in her lymph nodes and in her liver.

If, as you go about your day, you can spare a thought or prayer for my aunt, her husband, her daughter and her new grandson, please send them.

Comments

[peripateticpolarbear]

aw, Bettie.....what a week.

[Elizabeth]

Oh Bettie, I'm so sorry to hear about your Aunt. Both my Father and Father-in-law have cancer, so I'm sending positive vibes and good thoughts your way. Take care.

[jo(e)]

Sending prayers ....

[moreena]

Of course. You've sent so many our way, and so I've learned from the best.

[raehan]

Yes, I will. Hug.

[CPA Mom]

As someone whose life has been touched by that terrible disease (http://tiggereeyore.blogspot.com/2006/08/in-which-i-gathered-my-courage.html), know that your entire family is in my prayers. God's strength to you all.

[angela marie]

I know colon cancer too well, and will be hoping and praying for good things for your aunt.