Dawn

This had been a very emotional day for me. Nelson and I did have a nice day as the following pictures show, but a lot of emotional things happened today.

My friend Karen had breast surgery yesterday. I called her house and talked to her daughter. She was on her way home from the hospital. Doing ok. She will start radiation or chemo in about 3 weeks. They haven’t gotten the biopsy report back from the surgery yet.

I talked to my girlfriend Lisa today. We have been friends since we were 15 and now we’re almost 50, that totally freaks us out on how fast the time has gone. Lisa was diagnosed with MS several years ago. She’s been depressed a lot since then, but everything seems to be in remission, so that is good. She’s always had a tumultuous marriage. Although they love each other and have been married for like 25 years (they were high school sweethearts), there’s been a lot of unhappiness in her marriage. She so much wants to do what Nelson and I are doing. I talked to her for a long time telling her that if she was willing to give up her $400,000 house and all of her beautiful belongings that she could very much do what we are doing. We only have one life and we have to do what makes us happy. It’s just a decision to make your life like mine. Anyone could do it. It just matters whats important to you. I told her if she really wants to do it, then she needs to just do it. We all need to do what makes us happy, that’s all there is to it.

Then I talked to Steph, who was working at AllRisk today. Lou, one of the girls that I’ve worked with for 20 years got a phone call this morning that her 21 year old daughter had been in a car accident. Someone ran a red light. They had to take her out of her car with the big jaw things. When they took her out she couldn’t feel her legs, and they rushed her to the trauma unit. I was just sick all day. We have watched each others kids grow up . Her daughters are 21 and 25, the exact same age as mine. Our girls went to church camp together when they were young. We later found out that she could feel her legs, but they wanted to keep her in the hospital for awhile to watch things. God, that was such a relief to know that she was going to be ok. That just hits a little too close to home. I started feeling very guilty about being so far away from my girls if anything like that ever happened to them, I wouldn’t be able to rush right there like Lou was able to do for Elisha today.

So... it was a very emotional day for me. And hopefully everything will turn out great for all of my friends.

Ok, so I’m totally depressing today. Everyday can’t be perfect. Even in Arizona in the winter.

I hope everyone’s day was a lot cheerier than mine. And I really do hope that for all of my loved ones and friends.