Lori and Me

The phone rang tonight and I found out my cousin was diagnosed with colon and liver cancer.  She is only 48 and has been healthy all her life.  She never smoked, drank occasionally, she has always been thin, ate well and so on.  Her husband asked the doctor how many times do people survive this….not many was the answer.  It’s so sad, I feel so bad, sad, shocked.  She was the person that I always enjoyed seeing the most at Christmas and other family gatherings when we were kids.  We had so much fun together.  If you saw one of us you saw the other.  Her Dad and my Grandpa (brothers) used to help each other out on their farms and she and I would tag along and try to keep up with the men, thinking we were so strong…HA.  I just can’t believe Lori could be that sick…possibly fatal.  How do these things happen.  Prayers can work miracles, maybe she will be one of the few lucky ones.  I have to have faith until there is a reason not to.  I can’t even fathom what she must be feeling or her husband and sons.  The last time I saw her was at my Grandpa’s funeral…she looked so good.  I wish we would have had more time to talk but it was such an emotional day, I said a few words, we hugged and then later said good-bye.  She lives in MN now so we rarely see each other.