Finding Out: Can’t Breathe
9 July 2007
This morning I spoke with my girlfriend. Last year, my friend lost a breast to cancer. She fought it hard, never complained and worked to support her family while undergoing Chemo and Radiation. After the last round of radiation she was declared cancer free and lived that way for about five months. As fate would have it; she found another lump on her rib cage--it was a scare. Then last month she was told that breast cancer spread to her muscles; the lumps and affected tissue was removed in June. As I wait quietly in the side lines with baited breath and wonder if it is time again.
Since the beginning of this disease’s journey with my friend--she started having pain in her legs and joints. There are times when she would get up with a slight moan and laugh playing it off like her leg had went to sleep and was experiencing the pins and needles from sitting too long. She went and had the tests and the results came back on Friday. Breast cancer had moved into her bones. This feels like the march of gradual assault; cancer has invading my friend’s body like a general bent on winning a proverbial war.
Feeling useless, I spent the day on-line gathering information for her. In my mind I am playing out conversations with her, family, friends and doctors. I have decided I will do whatever she needs of me to help her find a cure or pass from this life. I will fill out her forms, drive her to appointments, and listen to every word that she chooses to speak and share with me. I will mark each day that this remarkable and precious person chooses to allow me into her inner circle.
This is one woman of countless I have met and grown to know has made such and incredible impact on my life. I admire JoJo more than any other person I have met in my life. People have had cancer in my realm but she continues to let me learn and grow. She has not cut me from her life as she bunkers down for the fight of her life. I have never heard one compliant or outrages. I have never met such a peaceful, loving, genuinely kind and happy person. Her famous reply to people inquiring about her health is beautiful and simple, “WONDERFUL.”
I am honored to have her choose to keep me a friend and have seen how my own life if richer for knowing her. I am putting together a charity auction in her honor for the American Breast Cancer Foundation. I have been working on this auction that began as a simple post by EBay user Muledaddy357 about “Blog Gangs.” While I am putting the finishing touches on this event, this week JoJo will be attending her daughter's wedding in Edna, Texas. I hope that the PINK THONG charity auction proves to be a great success.
I just want to remind all gentle readers passing this way. Breast cancer robs so much more than breasts from women. It steals from everyone that it touches. Sure there are many survivors but we are not at 100% recovery. I choose to honor my friend by supporting the American Breast Cancer Foundation for the rest of my life.
Love, hugs, and kisses,
Nekkid Chicken
9 July 2007
This morning I spoke with my girlfriend. Last year, my friend lost a breast to cancer. She fought it hard, never complained and worked to support her family while undergoing Chemo and Radiation. After the last round of radiation she was declared cancer free and lived that way for about five months. As fate would have it; she found another lump on her rib cage--it was a scare. Then last month she was told that breast cancer spread to her muscles; the lumps and affected tissue was removed in June. As I wait quietly in the side lines with baited breath and wonder if it is time again.
Since the beginning of this disease’s journey with my friend--she started having pain in her legs and joints. There are times when she would get up with a slight moan and laugh playing it off like her leg had went to sleep and was experiencing the pins and needles from sitting too long. She went and had the tests and the results came back on Friday. Breast cancer had moved into her bones. This feels like the march of gradual assault; cancer has invading my friend’s body like a general bent on winning a proverbial war.
Feeling useless, I spent the day on-line gathering information for her. In my mind I am playing out conversations with her, family, friends and doctors. I have decided I will do whatever she needs of me to help her find a cure or pass from this life. I will fill out her forms, drive her to appointments, and listen to every word that she chooses to speak and share with me. I will mark each day that this remarkable and precious person chooses to allow me into her inner circle.
This is one woman of countless I have met and grown to know has made such and incredible impact on my life. I admire JoJo more than any other person I have met in my life. People have had cancer in my realm but she continues to let me learn and grow. She has not cut me from her life as she bunkers down for the fight of her life. I have never heard one compliant or outrages. I have never met such a peaceful, loving, genuinely kind and happy person. Her famous reply to people inquiring about her health is beautiful and simple, “WONDERFUL.”
I am honored to have her choose to keep me a friend and have seen how my own life if richer for knowing her. I am putting together a charity auction in her honor for the American Breast Cancer Foundation. I have been working on this auction that began as a simple post by EBay user Muledaddy357 about “Blog Gangs.” While I am putting the finishing touches on this event, this week JoJo will be attending her daughter's wedding in Edna, Texas. I hope that the PINK THONG charity auction proves to be a great success.
I just want to remind all gentle readers passing this way. Breast cancer robs so much more than breasts from women. It steals from everyone that it touches. Sure there are many survivors but we are not at 100% recovery. I choose to honor my friend by supporting the American Breast Cancer Foundation for the rest of my life.
Love, hugs, and kisses,
Nekkid Chicken
