Thyroid Cancer

As you know we had another diagnosis of  Thyroid Cancer in our family. Natalie had surgery this week for it. But I would like to share something.

I was able to be with Natalie this week in the hospital and at my home. I sat with Josh while he waited for the doctor to come out and tell him how it all went. I was talking to Stacy yesterday and telling her about my emotions of the week and she told me a story that I had forgotten.

When JP had surgery, Stacy was in Jr. High. Teresa (JP’s older sister and Natalie’s mom) worked at the Jr. High. Teresa went and got Stacy, checked her out of class and drove her to the hospital. She talked to her and told her what to expect. She had been through it, so she told Stacy her experiences. She told her that he would be and look sick, but that he would get better and reassured her that it would be ok. She waited for Stacy outside his room as she went in. Stacy said she still remembers how her Aunt took her hand and her heart and helped her through that rough time.

I was so touched. I hadn’t remembered all the details. It made me appreciate my family so much. It was really hard for me to know that Teresa couldn’t be with Natalie at the hospital because she had her kids at home.  That’s the thing about being a mom. We sometimes need to be in two places.  As Stacy told me the story about Teresa, I had the sweet tingly feeling that we are put on this earth to help each other. To be somewhere when someone can’t be there.

I feel so blessed to be in the Pasley Family. I sat in the hospital and watched Natalie struggle through this trial, and my mind took me back several times  to the days that we were all raising our kids together and how we always stepped in to help each other out. I thought of Natalie, Nicole, Stacy and Katie playing for hours and hours, dancing, playing house, Barbie's, you name it.  I thought of the day that Nat was born and what a struggle it was for her mom to get her into this world. Boy, does time fly. And Boy, are we blessed.

  It was a rough day, but Nat was such a trouper. She asked me to take a picture of her, but didn’t remember asking….but we are glad she asked so we have this picture!!! She did wonderful through the surgery and it all went well. They think the cancer is contained. What a blessing.

They came and stayed the night with us so she could rest and drive the 3 hour bumpy ride home on Wednesday.

Wednesday night we went to a fund raiser at the Joseph Smith Memorial. This year marks the 100 year anniversary of this building.  I love that building. I could look around for hours. They had a hat display in the lobby. It talked about when the building was a hotel and there was a man that would take the hats. He memorized faces so he never had to give out stubs or numbers.  He once returned 400 hats from memory!

We wanted to get a picture and asked a girl to do it. I handed her my camera and she said “are you from the press?” Pretty dang funny!

Yesterday was the first day of Stacy’s spring break. We did some shopping. Went to Walgreens and got 6 rolls of tape for .30 cents. So fun. Then worked on catching up our Project Life!

Happy Happy Easter to ya’ll!