She has gotten several responses to her email asking her friends to join the AOW. I was teary eyed when I read one email she forwarded to me.
I put this in the comments underneath yesterday's entry but she absolutely deserves her own guest entry here!
I WOULD DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN FOR YOU AND YOUR SISTERS TO BE SPARED
FROM THIS DREAD DISEASE. WHEN I WAS ON CHEMO FOR OVER 12 MONTHS
(AND YOU KNOW HOW IT WAS ADMINISTERED BACK IN 1988)
MY PRAYER WAS "I OFFER EVERYTHING I AM GOING THROUGH. LET IT END WITH ME"
AND EACH DAY I TOLD MYSELF "TOMORROW WILL BE A BETTER DAY"
TO ALL OF YOU GOING THROUGH THESE TOUGH TIMES, I SAY "THAT BETTER DAY
DID COME, AND SOMETIMES IT IS LIKE IT NEVER HAPPENED"
I WAS LUCKY ENOUGH TO HAVE AN "ARMY" OF CARING AND LOVING FAMILY TO
HELP ME THROUGH A VERY HARD TIME. I SEND A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO MY
HUSBAND, JOHN, FOR BEING THERE EVERY STEP ON MY JOURNEY. I NEVER WAS
TO A TEST OR DR'S APPT. WITHOUT HIM BY MY SIDE (EVEN TO MY 10 YR. ONCOLOGY
APPT. WHEN I WAS RELEASED FROM HIS CARE IN 1998.) HE WAS MY ROCK.
ANNE, I SAY TO YOU "YOU ARE A CHIP OFF THE OLD BLOCK" PUTTING YOUR EFFORT
INTO A VERY WORTHY CAUSE. I AM VERY PROUD OF WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND I KNOW
YOUR DAD IS WATCHING OVER ALL OF US.
Keep up the good work and let's hope and pray we will see a cure in the not too distant future.
Love,
FROM THIS DREAD DISEASE. WHEN I WAS ON CHEMO FOR OVER 12 MONTHS
(AND YOU KNOW HOW IT WAS ADMINISTERED BACK IN 1988)
MY PRAYER WAS "I OFFER EVERYTHING I AM GOING THROUGH. LET IT END WITH ME"
AND EACH DAY I TOLD MYSELF "TOMORROW WILL BE A BETTER DAY"
TO ALL OF YOU GOING THROUGH THESE TOUGH TIMES, I SAY "THAT BETTER DAY
DID COME, AND SOMETIMES IT IS LIKE IT NEVER HAPPENED"
I WAS LUCKY ENOUGH TO HAVE AN "ARMY" OF CARING AND LOVING FAMILY TO
HELP ME THROUGH A VERY HARD TIME. I SEND A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO MY
HUSBAND, JOHN, FOR BEING THERE EVERY STEP ON MY JOURNEY. I NEVER WAS
TO A TEST OR DR'S APPT. WITHOUT HIM BY MY SIDE (EVEN TO MY 10 YR. ONCOLOGY
APPT. WHEN I WAS RELEASED FROM HIS CARE IN 1998.) HE WAS MY ROCK.
ANNE, I SAY TO YOU "YOU ARE A CHIP OFF THE OLD BLOCK" PUTTING YOUR EFFORT
INTO A VERY WORTHY CAUSE. I AM VERY PROUD OF WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND I KNOW
YOUR DAD IS WATCHING OVER ALL OF US.
Keep up the good work and let's hope and pray we will see a cure in the not too distant future.
Love,
Mom
This is the line in Bridges of Madison County that moves me every time I hear it or read it. I think of my own life and I think about my mom (and my grandmothers, too).
"You don't understand, no-one does. When a woman makes the choice to marry, to have children; in one way her life begins but in another way it stops. You build a life of details. You become a mother, a wife and you stop and stay steady so that your children can move. And when they leave they take your life of details with them. And then you're expected move again only you don't remember what moves you because no-one has asked in so long. Not even yourself."
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