chemo will begin

Well, they say God truly only gives you what you can handle. I have decided in the day and age of technology we should be able to contact anyone, anyplace and any time. Well, yesterday my mom's cell phone broke. No big deal but it was the day my dad was having surgery. The initial thought was only a lung biopsy to see what kind of infection was in his lung. But the outcome was a lobectomy(removed the upper lobe of his left lung) and its positive for cancer. So when you can't get a hold of your mother, you can't drive and your anxiety level is through the roof, what does one do? clean, pray, scrap book(should go and look at those pages) and call your sister thirty times while she's at work and pray some more, oh and I seemed to have cried a bit too.
I did finally call the hospital ICU and the unit secretary was wonderful and she gave me the update that Dad was off the vent( breathing machine) and drinking fluids. All wonderful signs, I cried again. My brothers Jammie and Mark are going to stay with my mom over the weekend and Michelle is coming into town on Wednesday. We will head up there too. I did finally get to talk with my mother late last night and she is doing better. She spent time with my dad and and friend took her out for dinner. She had a wonderful sense of humor and made me laugh. See God is good. Oh by the way she is going to get a new cell phone today. hee hee
I did finally get the plans for chemo yesterday too. We start on Monday. Will have 6 treatments once every 3 weeks. Will get a new wig soon and Tim has decided to get a red one and a cutie little outfit to go with it. i think he should look really interesting in a red wig and outfit. LOL Matthew asked if he could shave Tim's head and Tim had to really think about that since Matthew doesn't shave yet....yes he has facial hair all ready. OH help me. why do they grow so fast?
I want to point out that God did not give me more than I could handle. Well the lack of communication with my mother was terrible but i talked and laughed and cried with my sister all day. The diagnosis of CA with my dad was awful but now I will have a bald friend to go through treatment with. They think they got all of it too since they removed the upper lobe. Lastly, we have a plan. It is so hard to wait and not have a direction. Now we do. I will be done by May. I will have hair by the fall. This will all be behind me and yet I do see the foot prints in the sand and KNOW God has been with me during this journey and will continue.
I am so blessed by all of the wonderful people around me. I can't tell you all enough how grateful we are. The meals, the calls, the laughter, the taxi service, the everything means so much to us. It is such a help and we couldn't do this without you. Thank you
Love, Lisa