Family Visit

I was really glad to get home and see family.  I was able to see both sisters and parents.  We don't get together very much.  The bummer was that this was also an eye opener with news that my Dad had Pancreatic Lymphoma.  I was terribly upset by this since he was diagnosed last year with Hairy Cell Leukemia.  I have decided that I will most certainly race again for Team in Training.  I am very grateful that it is treatable with chemo (sp?) and maybe radiation.  However there are so many who are not in the same boat.  I have great respect for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.  They do much to promote research and a search for a cure.  I sure hope that some of the money I will be raising in the Winter/Spring will benefit that mission.  I will pass along information when I get home about how to donate.

It' a bit of an earth shaker when you go from running around in the mountain to making daily visits to the hospital.  It is very hard to see someone you love so much in pain or not at 100%.  My dad was amazingly strong.  I have great respect for him. Life is a roller-coaster.  I was able to stay until my Dad got out of the hospital and then an extra day.  I was thrilled to see the quick recovery that he made after surgery.  I don't know when they will start chemo treatments.

Why do our parents have to get old? Why do people we love and care for have to suffer? Why do things work out the way they do?

This was the only picture that I took while home. That's Truman, the best beagle ever.