Good news... bad news!

Well, I'll start with the bad news and end on the good...As many of you know, a few weeks ago I got a call from my good friend Vicki, (we're travelling buddies) that she had some bad news. We were going to the Michael Buble Concert in Fresno on May 6 so I thought maybe she was calling to cancel. Oh, how I wish that would have been it! But no, she had gone to the emergency room with a stomach ache and they found large tumors in her stomach. So she went in for surgery last Monday. After a gruelling 7 hours of surgery they found and removed cancer in her ovaries, diaphram, stomach, liver, colon and right before they closed her up they found the source of the cancer...it's called Gastro Esophogial Junctional cancer. It's where the esophogas (sorry my spelling is terrible) meets the stomach. That's why the cancer was spreading everywhere because that's a major junction. And that also makes it inoperable. They can't remove it. They can give her radiation to keep it from growing so that she's not in a lot of pain but it won't cure or kill it. So after hearing this news I got on a plane Tuesday morning and went and spent the week in the hospital helping her. We had some good, long talks and enjoyed our time together. I really want to say thanks to my mom for coming right away to take care of my family! What a relief it was not having to worry about them. And thanks to all of my friends that called and offered to come and help with the kids. I really appreciate it!
The good news is...we did get to go to the concert before she had her surgery and it was fabulous!!! We had a great time! Michael Buble really puts on an awesome concert.