Home Sweet Home, with a bitter aftertaste

Hello friends, thanks for coming back for a second read. This week's entry is going to be slightly less upbeat than the first one, due to some unfortunate circumstances surrounding the previous week.

As many of you may know by now, my mother received some unfortunate news on Thursday. After noticing that she was jaundice one evening she went to the hospital the next day and upon testing, the doctors discovered that she has a small mass pressing against her pancreas. Indeed, this is unfortunate and disturbing news. When I learned of all this I decided to come home for the weekend and accompany my parents to Johns Hopkins in Baltimore this coming Monday. We do not yet know what exactly is in store for her down there. We assume she will have some sort of biopsy done on the mass to determine if it is cancerous or not, as well as being admitted to remedy the jaundice. Beyond that, we do not know what is going to happen.

That all being said, we are all hopeful and optimistic, especially her. My mother is an amazingly strong woman, and she has been taking it all very well. She is coming up on her 11th year of remission for her breast cancer, and that is giving her great strength.

Thank you all who have expressed your encouragement in this matter. We appreciate you keeping her in your thoughts in prayers.

Sorry that this entry was so short, and so solemn. I promise once this one is past I will actually have an entry on something to ponder, for the blog's namesake. Haha. Thanks once again for reading.