Cancer and more

I know just too many people fighting cancer!! My dear friend, my aunt, my friends little boy, and more. I have fought cancer twice in a year and a half. When I had my thyroid out last month I was in a room with a breast cancer survivor. I know you can fight cancer and win and I also know sadly sometimes winning is not in the game plan. I wish I could bury that word and all its heart wrenching effects, but I can't, so the only thing I and so many others know how to do is take a deep breath, get on your knees, and then come up fighting. I am blessed!  I am grateful every day that my fight was not worse as I cry for, and pray for those who I know who have had it much worse than I. My thyroid cancer was stage one. My thyroid was black and hard on one side ( Hoshimoto's disease ) and still pink and working on the other. The cancer was caught early and contained. No radiation. I get to stay home and be a Mom to these little people I love so much. It makes me more grateful for all the crazy times and for the more mellow mundane every day things. I have another CT scan next month to ck for a reoccurring tumor. I am grateful for these times, they give me peace of mind that I am hopefully tumor free for another six months. My surgeon does not have a frequent surgery punch card and told me he'd like to see a little less of me. Works for me. I was thinking about all this the other day as I was out front with my kids. I was motivated me to get up, get my camera and document the every day that is more precious than we think.