July 3-Celebrate your life and your your freedom!

This week has been busy but fun with one caveat which I will get to later. Monday was me day, Tuesday I had bible study and afterward went to visit a friend and to see her new home(gorgeous with access to the water) finally getting home around 3 p.m. I love days where I have plenty to do if I choose but at the end of the day my bones and my body are not thanking me, but I refuse to become stagnant and let life pass me by. Cancer can take away a lot of things that I have no control over but my love of life and will to live are not among the power that cancer yields in my life! Tuesday evening my little family went over to mom Lila’s to celebrate her birthday which was actually Wednesday. I had been very emotional all day and wasn’t sure of the source but when we got to Lila’s she told me that she had something for me and needed me to see it before I sat down. She opened the door to the den and there was the best surprise that I have received in recent memory, my sister Sheila was home from California to stay!!! Somehow these people had managed to keep her arrival the previous evening a secret from me and I just cried, I have wanted and needed her to be here close to me and now she is. God new how heavy my heart was and how much I wanted her home and I knew that God would answer my prayers but I sure didn’t know it would be this soon. I guess even God likes to surprise his children too. I am still over the moon. Wednesday was stay home and give my body a chance to reboot day because Thursday was going to be a long and fun day for me and Roseanne, and it was. We went to Raleigh to the Crabtree Mall and hit almost every single store just because we could, and this is a 2 story mall! After a long and fun filled day we ate dinner at the Cheesecake Factory managing to leave without a single bite of cheesecake! somehow that just seems wrong. We finally got home around 9:45 and I was hurting and exhausted as I’m sure was Roseanne. After a decent nights sleep I picked my sister up and took her to see daddy and Mama J (they had no idea she was here, I was sworn to secrecy). They were VERY surprised and happy to see her. Tomorrow will be a day of rest because right now my body is not happy with me.
Now as I mentioned at the beginning there is a caveat to my happy week: I just read in People Magazine about Dr. Farid Fata, a highly regarded and recommended cancer specialist out of Michigan who was telling patients that they had cancer, subjecting them to radiation, chemo and other horrible things all in the name of money! This money was lining his pockets and not a single patient had cancer, some died and some suffered damage to their bodies and immune systems that can never be reversed. First let me say this, please, please, please get a second opinion if you are ever diagnosed with any devastating illness. Second, I hope they fry his butt!!! I believe with every fiber of my being that my anger is a righteous anger and I have no guilt wanting to see this man face the death penalty. I have been blessed to have the doctors that I do, save for “Dr. Doom” the very first doctor that I had. Every single day regardless of my pain and limitations I am grateful to God. My next big outing is Monday for my first kayaking ever and I am excited. Keep your eyes on God and your prayers never ending.
Love to all and a shout out to Barbara!