Oh Jesus. Longtime readers of this site will no doubt remember frequent commenter “brigita,” a fellow blogger and ND graduate (not to mention Purple Weasel). She stopped blogging earlier this year when she had her first baby, the little girl I made this outfit for. Tonight I got excited when I saw B’s blog pop back up in my RSS reader. I was hoping for a baby update. I got a bad shock. I just don’t understand. Cancer isn’t something that happens to us, to people our age, to people who take care of themselves and who just had babies and who DON’T DESERVE TO GO THROUGH THIS CRAP. I’m scared to think how I’d react if it were me. I think I’d have crawled into a dark place and never left. I… I don’t know what else to say.
Holli
January 6, 2008 — 2:22 am
Oh, man. I don’t know what to say, either, other than I’m sorry that this is happening…
Tia
January 6, 2008 — 8:17 am
I have no words, Kris. She sounds like a strong, determined woman, and ready for the fight.
brigita
January 7, 2008 — 3:49 am
Thanks for the mention, Kris. 13DFM sure got a lot of traffic yesterday!
Yeah, the whole thing is just beyond bullshit–no family history, zero risk factors, and the fact that it developed while I was preggers? SO LAME.
I know that I’m able to maintain a stiffer upper lip with Violet in our lives–talk about good medicine–but even without anklebiters to distract, if you were to be in a similarly unfortunate situation, I’ve no doubt that you’d kick its ass with your trademark grace & grit. 😉
PS/PSA: For those of you who are similarly young & healthy–if your poops get funky and don’t clear up after a few weeks, get checked!
As a friend once said, the worst part of the colonoscopy is the cleaning out the day before…of course, I had to correct him and say that the worst part of a colonoscopy is actually being told you have cancer…