Love Sick

I'm quickly realizing that cancer doesn't just affect one person, it affects every person that loves the one person it has chosen to attack. My mom fights cancer every day, and so do I...even though I don't physically have it. That's the thing about this ugly illness. It doesn't care who you are..your age..anything. It just attacks. It will run you and everyone you love into the point of exhaustion. WE are fighting it together, my mom especially. I truly believe she's the strongest woman in the world. Forget the body builders who move cars and buildings, this woman gets her brain radiated every day and still has the strength to keep a smile on her face and celebrate the moment. That's my mom.

Today is the day you are supposed to celebrate love--Valentine's Day. Love for your husband, boyfriend, wife, friend, sister, brother...whatever you love. Even if it's your dog. Well today, we celebrated the love of our mom. As a wife and as a sister. We celebrated the opportunity to have her for another week. We celebrated the gift of being able to write her cards and receive the ones she had written. I will cherish the card she wrote for me forever. In a line of my card that my mom wrote she said,

 "I can't imagine what you'll be one day and the kind of wife and mom
you'll be. But I know it will be the best because that's all you've shown me.
Never has there been a child more loved and wanted. I will always be just
a prayer or thought away. Live your life with joy."

"Live your life with joy" That will always stick with me. How could I not live with joy after having a mom like her? She has brought me nothing but happiness. She has made me the person I am, molded every ounce of my being. SHE has brought me the ultimate joy.