Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Does it get any better than this ???


Oh my goodness!!! Does it get any better than this??? Let's see where do I start???
Last Friday afternoon my mom was rushed to our local hospital. She had been in bed sick as a dog since Tuesday but had refused to call her doctor or go to the hospital. Every time my dad would come over and tell me that she is worse I would tell him that she will go when she is ready. He couldn't understand how I could stay so calm about it. I figured getting upset was not going to change anything. So every night I would pray for the Lord to work his magic on my mom to help her see that she need to seek medical attention. Well finally Friday morning the Lord gave my mother the strength she needed to be able to get out of bed an into the shower, this is what was preventing her from going to the hospital to begin with, she needed a shower. Well, long story short, they took her in for emergency surgery. She had 5 hernias obstructing her small intestines. They said had she waited one more day she would have died!!! DIED!!!! Here I am the one with cancer and my mom came closer to death that day than me!!!
So now I am running back and forth to the hospital to see her and talking with the doctors because my dad is not understanding a word they are saying to him. I am taking care of my 2 little guys and that Monday I was scheduled for a PET/CT scan, Tuesday I was scheduled to discuss the results of my colonscopy from the previous Monday and Thursday I see my Orthopedic surgeon. Well it's now 10:46 Wednesday night and I am so tired I can barely keep my eyes open. My oldest guy Zachery is now sick, today is my mom's 70th Birthday and she is still in the hospital. Me and the boys were supposed to go and see her and we were not able to do that due to Zachery having a 102.6 fever. My friend Bryce Brown is not doing well at all and I was praying for him while I was driving and there was a telephone repair truck in front of me and he had one of those "cherry picker bucket" things on the back and the rest of the back of the truck was all open and all this crap came flying out and hitting my car. Coffe cups, boxes and then out of no where a circuar saw blade hurling right at the passenger side of my windshield, I veered off the road and it dinged of the top of my car and then into the grass. The truck moved oner into the right lane and I flagged to him to pull over. We both got out and I had tears running down my face. He asked if I was okay and I told him that I had been praying for my friend Bryce Brown who has cancer and all this crap started flying out of the back of your truck. He was such a sweet guy he felt horrible and said it wasn't his normal truck and the guy that the truck belongs to never cleans up after himself. He jumped into the back of the truck and said "Crap the saw blade is gone!!!" I said yea it just about killed me. He jumped back down and asked if there was anything he could do for me I told him there was 2 things he could do. He put his hand on my arm and said anything just tell me. I said first when you get back to work you must tell all of your co workers to NEVER EVER leave anything in the back of their trucks again!!!!NOT even a coffee cup!!!And second you must pray for my friend Bryce Brown!!! He said absolutely I will. He again said how sorry he was and as he climbed back into his truck he yelled "Hey Lady I hope your friend Bryce Brown is going to be okay but I promise I will pray for him" I said thanks and left.
So for tonight....Does it get any better than this?????
Let's review...
I came very close to loosing my mom this past week..
I came within inches of loosing my life, or at the very least half of my windshield....
I met a complete stranger who is right now praying for my friend Bryce Brown...
Does it get any better than this????

Oh and my inspiration behind fighting this disease and having this blog...
check out the picture at the top...

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Christine,
You are a walking miracle! I am so glad your mom is OK and you were able to 'dodge the crap' from the truck. Your little boys are absolutely gorgeous! And I can tell there is lots of love being shared between them and you. You radiate goodness. You are in my prayers and my thoughts and I feel blessed for the honer. Know that you have touched many lives thru Bryce and Tammy's blog. I'm sure there have been many souls saying, "and bless our friend Christine". Lets pray for good stuff for you with the medial folks. Love and prayers to you and for you. -Rhonda

Tammy said...

Christine! Your story, when you called me, however horriffic, was seriously funny! The part about the driver promising to pray for Bryce Brown cracks me up! I am praying for your mom and dad, and we hope they get better. We are also praying that you will have the necessary help as you get ready to fight again. Have you gotten the results of your MRI yet?? Thank you so much for offering your stem cells to us. Hopefully someday, a cure for melanoma will be found using these cells. Your heart is always in the right place. We love you and pray for you often!
-Bryce and Tammy

Anonymous said...

Christine,
What darling little ones you have! I just love little children. I don't think I appreciated my kids when they were young, like I should have. Now that they are grown, I enjoy them so much more. I especially love my little granddaughter, now 17 months old and on the verge of talking. What little miracles our children are. I can't imagine life without my children.

I'm glad that your mom finally got that shower so that she could seek medical treatment when she did. Your story about the truck and the saw blade reminds me of that horrible scene in "Twister". You know which one I'm talking about. I don't like that movie very much...

I'm sorry to hear that your cancer has returned and I continue to pray for you, that you will have many more years with your little ones.

Love and prayers, Elaine Miles, Tammy's aunt