Mother's day
So yesterday was Mother's Day and I feel like there is no better time to share how amazing my mother is and has been through this whole thing! To say that she is my rock is an absolute understatement. I honestly don't think I would have made it through this process without her and I don't know how she puts up with me most days. She and my dad had to gone through hell in those early weeks and taking me to all my chemo appointments could not have been easy on them. She manages dealing with all the insurance and with the lovely chemo brain that I have been dealing with she remembers (and most often takes care of) all the things that I need to get done.
She was the first person that I told when the initial scans came back, I mean there was no one else I could even imagine telling. When they told me at the appointment that it looked like cancer, I remember thinking "I want my mom, this can't be right. She needs to be here and set them straight". She has been with me at every appointment since then and as hard as things were on me, they had to be worse for her. And through it all she has been the positive voice in the back of my mind, even when I don't want to hear it. She has let me take out my frustrations and I have snapped at her way too many times. Anything I have wanted or needed she has taken care of for me. And these are only the things that I know that she has done for me.
So yesterday I got to spend the day with her (we actually spend a lot of time together). And she selflessly gave her mother's day to help me do yard work and get my sprinklers running. I truly cherish days like yesterday, I know that there are a million other things she could have been doing. She could have spent her day at home relaxing and doing nothing but she didn't, she gave her day to me. Cancer has taught me many things and the most important has been showing me how important it is to spend as much time as you can with those you love. You are promised nothing, so make the most of everything. So thank you mom for absolutely everything, I can't even begin to say thank you enough.
She was the first person that I told when the initial scans came back, I mean there was no one else I could even imagine telling. When they told me at the appointment that it looked like cancer, I remember thinking "I want my mom, this can't be right. She needs to be here and set them straight". She has been with me at every appointment since then and as hard as things were on me, they had to be worse for her. And through it all she has been the positive voice in the back of my mind, even when I don't want to hear it. She has let me take out my frustrations and I have snapped at her way too many times. Anything I have wanted or needed she has taken care of for me. And these are only the things that I know that she has done for me.
So yesterday I got to spend the day with her (we actually spend a lot of time together). And she selflessly gave her mother's day to help me do yard work and get my sprinklers running. I truly cherish days like yesterday, I know that there are a million other things she could have been doing. She could have spent her day at home relaxing and doing nothing but she didn't, she gave her day to me. Cancer has taught me many things and the most important has been showing me how important it is to spend as much time as you can with those you love. You are promised nothing, so make the most of everything. So thank you mom for absolutely everything, I can't even begin to say thank you enough.
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