It affects everyone!

It affects everyone!
Three Baskets of Asheville

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Experience with Cancer

This is my first time blogging so here it goes!

I don't know where to start, other than to tell my story regarding cancer. It is not only my story, but my family's.

Watching someone you love die is the worst one can do. All there is to do is watch & try to deal with the insanity of it all while keeping your sanity. Seeing first my Father & then my sister die 7 years later has been life changing. Trying to describe it is virtually impossible; my Mother, brothers, nieces, nephews & myself still feel the empty spaces when we are together knowing that we are no longer whole and never will be again. We don't talk about it, but it's there. We do talk about Dad & Kelley often with lots of laughter & some tears.

While we were in the midst of it all, there were no resources to really explain to us what was going on. No offering of spiritual guidance, no where to go to deal with it all as a family and as individuals. There was no talk of taking care of oneself so that we could take care of our dying loved ones, no place to turn in our desperation and time of need.

I know that Morgan Hill Retreat will be the place that we needed back then and will help many people through such enormously difficult times, whether the prognosis is good or bad, it will be a place of refuge for the soul.