6 Years Ago Today
As we are finishing up preparations for tomorrow's surgery I couldn't help but remember 6 years ago when Joe was preparing to leave the hospital after a 21 day stay. Most of those days we were not sure he would ever leave. It was not a good time but in the end the chemo did it's work and killed all of those cancer cells. Well, at least for 6 years. Fast forward - the family flu turned out to be anything but that and came out of nowhere and totally blindsided us. Back then, as now, I try to communicate with family and friends so that they know what is going on with Joe. Those 21 days in 2007 I emailed daily - sometimes more than once a day. Those emails were a release of my fears, my thoughts, my unspoken words. I know that we could not have gotten through this experience in 2006 - 2007 nor this time since August without our friends and family. You have been there for us with prayers, love, meals, visits, cards, flowers, taxi service, hugs and support. We are not