I can hardly believe it is New Year's Eve 2009. Where has time gone? This has been a long and somewhat difficult year for Mimi. Last January, she had open heart surgery because of two valves; one needing repair and one needing replacement. She healed well from that and was able to get back into her normal routine of helping others and scrapbooking and quilting and, well being busy.
As we got busy getting ready for two of her grandchildren's open houses and graduation, she started having symptoms that once prodded by Angie (my youngest stepsister), she finally agreed to see a doctor. June 7, 2009 was a day we won't forget. The neurosurgeon explained that she had a brain tumor; a gleoblastoma multiforme. The worst of all brain tumors. She wayed her options after talking with family and decided to have surgery to remove what they could. After surgery and a long recovery, she started radiation and chemotherapy medications. She had a bout of Stevens-Johnsons Syndrome which is a skin reaction to the Dilantin she was on along with the radiation she was receiving. That took quite a while to heal and was very painful and very uncomfortable for her.
Mimi just kept going; she kept trying each day to get up and around and do what she could for herself. She did quite well and even got so she could get herself showered without any help.
As you may know, Thanksgiving she and papa and JJ came to our house for dinner. She had done fine and went home and that is when things came to a head. She had a seizure that night and several more in the ambulance. Up until this point she had not had any seizures.
This cancer is awful; well any cancer is but this one just takes over so quickly and steals ones' physical life. But I must say that Mimi's spirit is strong and deep down I know she has not given up on life. She knows she has a future in God's kingdom and I am grateful she has a strong faith.
Thank you to everyone who has prayed for her healing. That is what we all want for her, however, God must have other plans for her.
She is still with us and I know that everything is in God's timing so I patiently wait for Him to call her home.
Papa has been by her side almost 24 hours a day since Sunday when JJ went to Florida. He is going to need your prayers of healing and comfort now more than ever. I know that they are good for one another and they will get each other through with God's help and our prayers.
Blessings to all and I am believing that 2010 will be a good year.
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