My friend Amy started a cancer support group called the Basil Babes, after our shared doctor's name. For a long time that is what it was called, even though more gals joined and had different doctors. Now we are called HUGs, Heroines United by Girly cancers. If you know anyone that needs a support group of very together professional women, who are dealing with gynecological cancers of any sort, we are a great group. We have a Facebook page and an email: heroinesunited@yahoo.com.
I visited Amy while she was getting chemo for the umpteenth time today, and met another woman who was finishing her first full treatment cycle(about 6 months of chemo). I told that woman about our group and that we were a group of survivors, some of whom were survivors of one full treatment cycle and others of us...I paused, thinking "keep it light, Amy"...were survivors of "more than one. " I decided umpteenth wasn't being very light. A person just finishing 6 months of life and health disrupting treatment did not need to even remotely entertain the idea that she might have to do it again...and again.
That is why I love our Hugs group. We did it, are doing it, and will help whoever get through it too.
Still waiting for the bumper sticker. And I read something last night that addresses the "umpteenth" aspect: "The closer we get to God, the more God can bestow on us a share of that inexhaustible newness which we call eternity." (Martin L. Smith, A Season for the Spirit). There is always more. More love, more laughs, more good-byes, more daydreams, more children, more tears. Sigh...how closely we cling to our misperception of our finity.
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