Cancer Sucks.

So. My best friend has cancer. We've known about it since Thanksgiving-ish. Let me just say, cancer sucks - on SO many levels. We live about an hour and a half away from each other, which makes it hard to see one another, and THAT is hard. (See? Sucks.)

Anyway, I have been trying to send her love in the best way I know how - cards. One day I went shopping for some new stamps to use on her cards and nearly had a meltdown in the stamp store when I saw this sentiment. It sums up our friendship on so many levels... we've been through so much together in 16+ years. This is just one more thing for us to get through.


As if all that weren't enough, Friday afternoon we had to rush Luka (one of the 'sheep') to the vet for emergency spleen surgery. He had a cancerous tumor the size of a tennis ball that had caused his spleen to rupture. It was all very frightening, especially since with this kind of cancer, as the doc put it, "they're fine, until they're not". That was totally accurate. He ate his breakfast, went outside and just laid down. Would not get back up.

Now I've mentioned lots of times before that our 'boys' are our kids. We don't have the two legged kind, so the furry ones mean the world to us. We are happy that Luka came through the surgery quite well, but we also know our time left with him will be brief. We are making the most of every moment we have left.

Yes, cancer sucks.