Finding optimism in difficult situations can be, very difficult. Our little happy home was recently become rather busy with taking care of my step-mother. She was diagnosed with cancer of the lungs that has spread into her lymph nodes, adrenal glands and brain. Her cancer is at a stage four making the prognosis grim.
Optimism has been difficult to find as our normal happy life during the holidays has been tossed about like the S.S. Minnow on a three hour tour. We are learning to go with the flow though and take it one day at a time.
On one of the trips to the cancer center, as I sat in the waiting room watching Andy Griffith, (seems to always be on there), I over heard a lady talking with the nurse.
The nurse tells her that they were going to start doing chemo twice a day for three weeks and she'd have to stay in the waiting room six hours between sessions.
WOW !!! It could always be worse. Once a day doesn't seem so bad now.
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