Too Much To Handle…
How in the world do you make any sense of life if Paxten is granted so few sunrises, not enough laughing time and far too few smiles? How does cancer get to triumph over such a little slice of life?
Al, our thoughts are with you in your loss. You’ve said it so many times…there is no figuring out who lives and who dies in cancer world.
Kathie, how do we all gather around and give you the support you need right now? So much loss and so much sadness….
We’re a community who will pick-up the pieces of a heart that has lost so much and gently put it back together again. Stick with us.
It’s such a punishing and cruel enemy. There are days when we just don’t have enough armor.
February 2, 2012 @ 6:54 pm
Thanks to you all for your kind words. It is hard enough for us adults but for the little ones, it is just too much for the heart to endure. It is why we must all have faith….I don’t understand but I will have faith and trust even through the tears and sadness. Those who are believers, let us continue our stand and faith even though our comprehension is tested.
Mo, for your friend, glio is so tough but perhaps the gamma can buy some time….quality time is worth the fight. For your other friend with colon cancer, for as long as possible and the spirit is willing, move from treatment to treatment until something works or until the will to fight has reached its limits. How many times have we witnessed this and how many more yet to come….wish those guys in the garage would hurry up with their cure!!! Until that time, I will pray, hope and pray some more while trying to do what I can to help those in need.
February 2, 2012 @ 1:09 pm
Al may God be with you and hold you in His arms, I will pray for you….
February 2, 2012 @ 11:31 am
Last week, I went to the funeral of a peson who lived less than a week after receiving a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. That, and all the recent posts remind me that in a cancer world, nothing is predictable.
February 2, 2012 @ 7:57 am
Al, so sorry to hear about your loss. My thoughts and prayers are with you. Kathie……..still thinking of you………….Laurie, you are so right, Cancer is such a cruel enemy………..lifting
February 2, 2012 @ 6:45 am
When I read Al’s post about little Paxten it just broke my heart. Losing Jim and my sister has been almost unbearable but a baby….I can’t even begin to imagine the grief of her family. I have been thinking a lot about the unfairness of it all a lot lately and I must take a lot of things on faith and believe they are beyond my understanding or control. Why are these good people being taken from their families when murderers and child molesters are allowed to live their miserable lives inflicting so much pain on others? Laurie, this group lifts me everytime I come here to ask and often when I don’t. All of you are always here with a kind word or encouragement that allows me to move forward a little.
Al…sorry seems so trivial for your little friend Paxten but I have no other words.
February 1, 2012 @ 9:01 pm
My friend, the young artist T., underwent the gamma knife last week, told it was her “best bet”. The MRI that preceded it showed the latest brain tumor (she has glioblastoma for which there is no cure) had shrunk. Another friend learned the other day her latest PET scan showed more tumor growth (she’s stage 4 colon cancer, highly aggressive, all the most recent treatments completely ineffective). One finds hope in faith I wish I had; the other hopes only for time enough.
February 2, 2012 @ 6:47 am
Mo..your friends are lucky to have your friendship. If only we could do something to cure them!