Day 10: Your best friend.
I consider myself a lucky girl in that I am blessed to have a few people that I would consider my best friends. To pick just one is nearly impossible.
Since she's heavy in my mind and heart right now, today's post I will talk about my girl, Heather. Heather and I met through work and became friends quickly. She and I went through our breakups (well, break up for her, divorce for me) at nearly the exact same time. We debated moving in together, however me never living completely alone, I decided against it. However, we decided to move into the same apartment complex, and were even able to get our apartments in the same building. She's the person I've always been able to tell anything to, and know that she'd give me the truth, straight forward, and her unbiased opinion. All without judging me. And visa versa. We joked a few times that we would be friends forever, because we knew too much blackmail on each other than we simply had no other choice. We went through good times, bad times, drunk times, silly times, hectic times...together. We even joked at one point that we were gonna put each other down on our facebook page as "in a relationship and it's complicated with ________". Of course, we never did. lol.
We both became in relationships at basically the same time as well. So once again, we turned to each other for an ear to talk to, bitch to, etc. (Wait.. me.. bitch? Nevah!!! hahaha). The morning that Wayne and I decided for me to come to Australia, we sat in my nearly empty apartment while I started loading the last bit of small stuff and laughed, and cried remembering and talking about all that we went through together in the last year. Lots of laughs. Lots of tears. Some tears were laugh induced. Ok, a lot of them. But not all, that's for sure. There truly is a reason why god brings certain people into your life, and I'm blessed that she is in mine, and has been there for me over the past year and a half.
Why is Heather so heavy on my mind and heart? I got an email from her yesterday telling me that she has cervical cancer. She is only 24, has no children, literally just bought and moved into a new house LAST WEEK, and is now facing a hysterectomy in the next 2 weeks. The doctors told her that it's early, stage 1 according to the biopsy. However they feel that it is worse than what the original biopsy shows. They've performed another biopsy, but it doesn't appear the outcome of the biopsy will change the hysterectomy verdict, and I predict that will just determine what other measures they need to take. I ask anyone reading this to please keep my friend and her physicians and surgeons in your prayers. I hope to be able to talk to her soon, but I can't imagine what she must be going through.
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