tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7125354934408472049.post6890349440783657305..comments2024-02-20T00:10:20.214-06:00Comments on KatyDid Cancer: Day 160Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7125354934408472049.post-8790953834822790182010-10-17T16:59:46.286-05:002010-10-17T16:59:46.286-05:00Do I agree with your mom so much because I spent s...Do I agree with your mom so much because I spent so much time with her as a kid and she helped mold my view of the world, or because I am grateful for the dozens of pounds of fudge brownies, or am I just sucking up because it's her birthday?<br /><br />(A very happy belated B-day, Martha! I think it's the world view AND the brownies.)<br /><br />Anyway, remember when you showed me the food magazine in your mail and said, "Oh, it's the new one! Man I love to read these, and I can't even eat anything because of the chemo - does that make any sense???" And I simply said, "Hon, I quit trying to make sense of you a long time ago." (I believe this exchange made Gabe chuckle from the other room.)<br /><br />Normal Katy has always been a relative term, but I think I can imagine what you must mean. It will be nice if the constant aches and pains go away eventually, won't it? (At least the chemo ones, I know the arthritis is still there.) It will be something to have hair again. Or hell, at least some eyelashes. Sleep would be a welcome break, too, huh?<br /><br />We mean well with all of our pep talks, but it's true that it might stay rough for some time even after the treatments are over. Or there might be more treatments. Or... you might be really cured. Like, really really. And we won't know, right? We wait. And during the waiting, and even after the cure, I hope you understand that the "we" still applies. We are still here if you need help, or an audience, or a line of defense, or whatever.<br /><br />Don't get me wrong, I'm hoping that in about six months you'll be feeling so fantastic you'll be writing about how easy it is to forget stuff rather than get used to it. But we're with you either way.<br /><br />[Dude, except if you wear that green wig. I'm outta there. Gives me the heebie-jeebies for some reason.]Juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15004173055166404126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7125354934408472049.post-82169284603757322912010-10-14T21:41:01.566-05:002010-10-14T21:41:01.566-05:00As you know, today is my birthday. Now, I've t...As you know, today is my birthday. Now, I've thanked you for each and every time you've had chemo. It has been a necessary act for you, but on the other hand, it has been an even more necessary act of love you've given to the rest of us. This last one on the 18th will be the best birthday present I could ask for. So, thank you once again. <br /><br />Everything that has happened to you, no doubt, has given you the grounding to get through this stupid thing, but I never thought - or think - in terms of your getting back to normal. I know I can't understand what you've really gone through to get through this - as your mom, I'm not sure I could take it - but as you've said, you have been through a lot in your life and you have indeed gotten through it. <br /><br />As far as I see it, your "normal" is your life as revealed through these words, and it's that eloquence - in both life and words -- that has been a constant. You are not returning to "normal." You have always been and remain you.<br /><br />And I thank you for that too.<br /><br />Love,<br />MomMomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05327701924465360560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7125354934408472049.post-87415045567954180132010-10-14T18:00:38.309-05:002010-10-14T18:00:38.309-05:00I like how your mind works. When I think about th...I like how your mind works. When I think about those first few days, I think about the CURE article you did, because here's how I found out. Tony said from another room, what's this, does Katy have cancer? And I said, no, epilepsy. Ha! It was really recently that you had written that article, so I assumed... But no, it was really cancer. So when you bring up those first few days, that's what I think about, and then that's like your next paragraph, you writing about that. It totally is tied together, and I look forward to your writing an epilogue to that article in a year or so to say that you have since been through this harrowing experience and you've come through that too, and how epilepsy has stayed in your mind even as cancer was crowding everything else out.Jennifer Hillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17916821571244626445noreply@blogger.com