--Seeing a wonderful woman, named Pat, being surrounded by people from the Lodge in the waiting room today, ringing the bell as she had completed her tx today! Her husband Phil has just been awesome to watch; reaching out to other people. Pat and Phil have gone to the Finding Hope meetings.
--Meeting another great couple, I always run into them in the morning time at breakfast. The husband has his treatment everyday before me; so I always see them both; we nod and wave. The wife is so sweet, she's told me of how she puts yogurt and Orange juice in her cereal, in place of milk. Her husband is so calm & has a wonderful demeanor. He actually had a brain tumor as well. He is a picture perfect santa with his white beard & hair. Seriously(: After talking with his wife more, she gave some of the words of her husband: "Life is just hard on people." I'm finding this to be true, life is just hard; and it's just life, it won't be perfect & it's okay.
--The snow has been melting.
--I just talked with another older couple. Their daughter, when she was 19 had a cancerous brain tumor, it was removed, and then she had radiation. She was in pre-med school and had to withdraw. She was given a 10 year prognosis, told that she wouldn't be able to conceive children. This lady, is now 40+, has three kids and is a advanced highschool physics teacher. It was good to hear of this story, as it's just hard to think about future plans. It's like in this process of what happened between Aug & Oct, taking one step forward, and then 2 steps back.
--I got to do some Christmas shopping at some of the local shops in the downtown area (my friends will be here tomorrow!!!!). As I was coming back to the Lodge, it was getting darker outside, I look up and see all of these crows!!! It was beautiful, there were a ton of them; the contrast between the dark sky and the black birds was beautiful. Then later in the evening before dinner, my dad and I went to the grocery store. As we were walking out side, all of the crows were covering the roof of the lodge; there were a lot of them just flying in the air as well. I could hear some splattering on the ground of them pooping. It was also visible on a ton of people's cars. So here, my dad and I were looking for the car, I'm just yelling "oh no", we end up finding the car and going to the store. When we got back, one of the ladies said to me that she could hear me from her room! It was just funny, these darn crows!
--Receiving mail/gifts from family and friends has been wonderful! Thank you!
On a side note: fatigue has set in this week a bit this week, which has made it harder to get to the gym & studying has been very off & on, not as consistent.
No comments:
Post a Comment