Sunday, December 16, 2007

Company Along the Way...


Our dinner with Bailee was great. They had a full house and the dinner was fabulous. We had an Italian spread and we had great conversation. The guest speaker was an inspiration.

I am so proud of Bailee and her strength. She always has a smile and is always up for a conversation. I look at her and admire her candid talks. When the doctor told her and the family of her diagnosis, her dad said she looked at the doctor and said "what are my odds?" Incredibly brave and wise. I like her. No, I love her.

That sounds strange to write but I can't tell you how important she is to our family. Kaylee and her were diagnosed about the same time. Kaylee has her to talk to. We visit each others room's when we are in the hospital. The girls talk medicine and procedures. They are the one's doing this thing and what better to have someone walk with you who's going through the same thing.

We have a lot in common with her parents. Ed woods attended the same high school as me and Tammie. Shawnee Mission North. Jill, Bailee's mom, is incredible. She is taking care of business with Bailee and she's always by her side. This disease is an inconvenience for us all.

I had a chance to sit and eat dinner with Bailee's Grandma, Grandpa, and Aunt. We talked and it was nice. We are so connected that it sucks. We have little one's that we love fighting an ugly thing called cancer. Well, we will get through this and we will have life long friends. It is a path we didn't choose but we'll walk it. We just happened to find company along the way.

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