Lisa Saari:  

h worry. This was in March, it took awhile for them to figure out what was going on with me. Had my surgery. Then I had to start 24hour/7days a week chemo for 8wks,( when that was done it was 24/3days every 2 weeks, till Thanksgiving.) and 5 days a week radiation for 8wks. This was hard. See Gene(husband)had just started a new job in Dec. of '05 which took him away from home 6weeks at a time. We have 2 girls, Sydney is 11 and just started Jr. high. and Samantha is 7, she's in 2nd grade now. So my girls went threw a lot, mom sick, dad out of town. ( thankful that I have 7 younger brothers and sisters, WHAT A HELP) Gene finally was able to get a more local job where he was home every night, and could take care of me. The summer was boring with me being sick all the time. Then it's time for school to start back up. The night before we're at my sisters for a BBQ, Gene is playing basketball with our nephew & daughter, walks inside the house and HITS THE FLOOR! He was rushed to the hospital and spent a week in intencive care. He had all the heart test done, thank God they could find anything wrong. Scary! I once said" I just need to make it threw this year. I hate this year!" my mom was there, turned and gave me my humble pie lesson of life. "We all go threw things it's how we handle them. You my dear should be greatful. Your alive. Your husband is alive. You have 2 healthy,beautiful,smart girls. Some people just dream for that much, where you've made it, others haven't." Leave it to a mom to slap the whinning right out of you even all these years later. So when New years came, there was the finish line for me. The end of a really faithwalking, character building year! I had not realized how much I held that finish line date in me, that when it was here I was pysically reacting to finishing the year. With the kiss of the start of 2007, we have been having a glorious year. GOD always only gives you what you can handle. I've learned that one, threw many a trials. Love-Lisa