Double Word Score

Today we played Scrabble...ALOT. When I say alot, I mean three times...in a row. We had so much fun! So much fun in fact, that we wondered why we hadn't been playing it all along. duh. It really helped pass the time too!

Considering the results\orders we received today, we will be playing alot more.

Unfortunately it looks like my mom is not getting out of the hospital any time soon. Two weeks is the sentence. TWO WEEKS!! Holy hell, what are we going to do for three weeks in a hospital room the size of a shoebox? We cant even go outside. Oh brother, this will be the test of our wills.

However, if the medi-cal kicks in, she can go home anytime after Friday so long as we get home health care. If you don't know anything about home health care in this situation, it is this...a nurse comes in and teaches me how to change her IV antibiotics bags and then returns like once everyday or every other day. And for those of you who wondering about ME changing the bags and whatnot, I will SO do it if it means she gets to go home.

Also, please know that my mom is by no means under the weather, feeling sick or any of that other stuff...she's is absolutely fine aside from that pesky little infection. So, if you are worrying, you can stop now, she really is okay. I swear.

Well, nothing else much happened today, so instead of boring you to tears I'm going to leave you with this poem that I found today. Its really cool.

"I found this poem today that reveals the strength borne in two friends upholding one another as they found themselves fighting cancer, but standing strong--growing in the process...Heartprints, Bren

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"THE CANCER TREE" was conceived through love and heartfelt encouragement, survivor to survivor. With poems written between two cancer survivors, trust was born and a friendship developed. If you have cancer, you're not a victim, you are a survivor! As long as you have breath, regardless of your diagnosis, you are still surviving.

THE CANCER TREE

For those of us sitting in Cancer's Big Tree

the decision to climb up was not worry-free,

But new growth was nurtured by warm, loving hands

the roots of the tree anchored deep in the land

Up high in these limbs we are strangely secure

where we once felt unsteady, we feel strong, we feel sure

~~Claudia (chenheart) XOXO

I caught a branch and climbed that tree

and wished YOU were sitting there high up with me

I caught another limb with my other hand,

and twirled to the trunk, and then shimmied down

I thought, if Chen tried doing what I just did,

I hope she wouldn't fall

Then I remembered, if she really tried

and she missed that branch

I'd just reach out and catch her...that's all!

~~Love ya,Ceezhar (Brenda)

The branch you held onto while climbing that tree,

was already filled with the essence of me

I watched as you climbed, could you not feel my smile?

I knew you were worried, it felt like a mile!

The blossoms that cushioned you bounced back in shape,

and fragranced the air, as you mimicked an ape!

I know we could both have made this climb alone

but to make it together...seeds of trust have been sown!

~~Chenheart

A seed, you say? Yes, we planted it together

I'll bet it will grow, bloom, and last forever

No hoe or spade, to keep it alive,

unnecessary things aren't needed to survive

Only understanding, a shoulder, and bits of love

will make a small sprout grow high up above

So sprouts we were, when the "C" visits came,

now giant oaks we've become, with cancer to blame

But wait, look up there, and down all around,

at the branches with survivors, and new sprouts on the ground

I see that they're growing, with help from each other...

a hug, a word, we're all sister and brother

See, there's that hand that caught us, and made our climb eased,

it's big, it's gentle, Oh Chen...it's God, and He knows about

this disease!

~~Ceezhar

XXOOCopyright 2004 byClaudia Cable & Brenda C. Corbin