One Days

Scott

When we started this chapter in Mom's Breast Cancer journey everyone told me that you have to take things one day at a time. I had heard this before many times... but now that we're in the middle of all of this, we now know the absolute truth of that statement.

Every day in mom's walk with this disease is a new and different day. And it's extremely difficult to not get caught up in the planning for what could happen, to ask questions about how long does she have, what will tomorrow bring? etc. etc. The more we get caught up in that, the more anxiety and stress overwhelms us.

It's been a while since mom has had any significant pain, which for someone in this stage of cancer is pretty remarkable. It's certainly something that we are very thankful for. Being pretty much bed-ridden, has left mom being occasionally uncomfortable, that's really all the pain that she's experienced. Prior to her surgery in December, she was in quite a lot of pain from a bowel obstruction caused by diffused gastric cancer (Breast Cancer in the abdomen). Her only pain through this process has really only been when she's experienced an obstruction.

So when she started having some pain yesterday, it's really hard to not immediately to start to worry that it's another obstruction... and at this point another obstruction would be a very bad thing. The truth is that there are several things that could be causing her pain.

And that's the day by day.

We wait for a moment to see what is going on and then take the next step.

The next step has often been OK.
It's natural to worry that the next step may not, but equally important to remember that it may be OK, it's often OK and even if it's not, we can get through it together.