The past few weeks have really taken a toll on us. From the closing of our home (3 weeks behind closing and quite frankly a complete nightmare), Avery's constant ear infections and finding out some pretty terrible news about someone who is very, very dear to us, Jarod's Mom.You know that whole saying, "What goes around comes around?" Well, sometimes I don't believe that to be dished out to the correct people accordingly. This is just my opinion. If you don't know my Mother-in-Law, let me spell it out for you in one word, S-E-L-F-L-E-S-S. The woman lives her life day to day helping all her children, friends, family and everyone close to her. It doesn't matter what the reason may be that you know her, you're just thankful you do. Blood, marriage, friendship, a neighbor, a lost/injured animal...she will be there above and beyond. Sometimes when you don't even deserve it. Shannon sacrifices and does so much for all of us. She would give anyone of us I have just mentioned the shirt off her back. I cannot count the nights she came to my rescue when Avery had VERY severe colic. He would cry for 4-6 hours some nights. Jarod was still working nights so he wouldn't get out of work until 2:30am. You know what? Every hopeless phone call I made to her, she came. Sometimes at 2:00am. The woman does it all. She is the reason we own our home: her help, knowledge, help in finding a great loan rate, etc. Shannon is also a wonderful Nana, I cannot begin to even list the things she does for our son and all his little cousins.
Your probably wondering where I am going with all this??? Life just doesn't go according to our plans sometimes. This woman deserves the world for all she does and she expects nothing in return. Then why am I about to type the next word...cancer. Not that anyone in the world deserves such a thing, but especially not this woman. No. Absolutely not. I am angry, just as much as she is devastated. A few weeks ago when she followed up on an ongoing pain in her stomach and because of some other coinciding facts that I don't feel the need to divulge, Shannon underwent surgery. Everyone waited on their phone calls from Shannon's Husband, my Father-in-Law, Ray. One by one we all found out that everything went well and the Doctors felt everything was benign. Great!!! Well, after everything that needed to be removed was sent out to a lab, the results, not good. She was brought in for her post-op. Shannon was told that they had on fact found cancer. She is going in for another surgery in a few weeks. We are all keeping fingers crossed. We hope that they retrieved it all the first time. Imagine being on cloud 9 and then falling from that cloud into a rainstorm that you definitely did not sign up for, well, you know what I am trying to say.
Please keep Shannon in your thoughts and prayers. She is the strongest, generous, selfless genuine, ambitious and honest woman I have ever known. So, it has to turn out okay, it has to. Because she doesn't deserve any less. Nothing less. We are SO very lucky to have her in our lives.
