WOW

It has been a while since I have really had the opportunity to post.  April and May have been kinda crazy for me.  (I already told you that May was going to be a marathon)  Toward the end of March my baby brother was diagnosed with stomach cancer.  I don't think I have mentioned it but stomach cancer is the reason that I am a widow.  I haven't said anything about it because I have to process within myself before I am really able to share about it.  I had said that the evening he called me to give me the positive diagnosis the only reason I didn't go throw up is because my knees were too weak to take me to the bathroom and I did not have the strength to clean up a mess.  He is progressing very well in treatment and his cancer is being treated as curable.  He should find out late next week or the early part of the next when he will have his surgery.  Two weeks ago my other brother, (the one next to me in age and who lives in Oklahoma) was diagnosed with multiple myleoma, which is cancer of the plasma in the blood.  This cancer is considered treatable but not curable.  So late on Thurs. afternoon one sister and I climb in my truck (which I reeeaaallly do love) and drive about 20 hours to the hospital that he was admitted to in Oklahoma City.  We stayed until Sun. around lunch time and then headed home to arrive around 9:30 on Monday morning.  Not really a weekend trip but hea, it is what it is and you do what you have to do.  He did call this morning to say that he was being discharged from the hospital today.  Today made 15 days of hospitalization for him.  As I am the oldest of this brood of 5 and our father is deceased and Mama has Alzheimer's and doesn't know anything, I am the "other mother" of this group.  Yep things have been kinda crazy around here but I still say there is joy in the journey.   The journey in and of it's self is not always joyful, but there is joy in the journey.  I will leave you with this for today.  "  Our days are much happier when we give a bit of our heart rather than a piece of our mind."  Have a great day and it is good to be back.