When A Curve Ball Hits...

 

Hi!

Life moves at whatever pace it chooses, whether we are ready, paying attention... or not. 

You can be going along, making plans, doing laundry, going to work, having movie nights, game nights, date nights, attending events, you know... living... and then...

Life can throw a curve ball so big, so fast, and so hard that it turns your life on its head. 

Someone I know, love, and respect has just been hit with a curve ball that would bring most to their knees. 

Stage 4 colon cancer.

She is young, smart, optimistic, hopeful, strong, and has an army of support, both on the front line and at a distance. Powerful weapons in a fight like this. Powerful, but not magic. This battle is going to redefine the word hard. It's going to push, test and stretch her fight, her body, her resolve, her relationships, her everything. 

If anyone can pull off a win... it will be her. 

When the shock of this kind of news subsides, processing the reality of it begins. 

I can't know the view from her perspective, I can't. All I can do, all any of us, really, can do, is to support her, and those with her on the front lines of this thing, as best we can.

She, and those she holds most precious have had their world twisted, distorted, they are not alone.

Too many have this level of chaos thrown at them every day.

Not all have the network of help they need, I'm grateful that this family has that unfailing support, my heart breaks for those who don't. 

This will be the fight to end all fights.

You are not alone.

This will devastate on levels not yet known.

You are not alone.

This will change all things.

You are not alone.

You will have to let people help you.

You are not alone.

You are stronger than anything you've previously imagined.

You are not alone.

You are surrounded by love that knows no bounds.

You are not alone.

Your support can hold more weight than you think.

You are not alone.

You are a proven warrior.

You are not alone.

You got this.

You are not alone.

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