I asked for help and boy did you deliver. I got such beautiful texts, emails, photos and helpful quotes, prayers and LOVE. Oh the love! With each message I felt stronger. My anxiety persisted but knowing all of you were praying for a smile on my face today made me feel connected to all of you and the universe. I was and am rooted in the power of love.
Look what we did!
Scan report: Mostly good news! There was a lymph node outside the liver that is slightly enlarged but hopefully that’s due to the liver infection aftermath. Nothing seen on the liver or lungs.I will have an over-read of the scan at MD Anderson, and will rescan at Baylor in 2 months.
The other wonderful part about yesterday was having dinner in Houston with an old friend of Charles’s from his elementary school days in Metairie, Louisiana. Charles has fond memories of the years his family lived there and his stories from those days always center around the little boy antics of Andy Wisdom, Mason McCarthy, Andre Mauberret and Rob Bradshaw. Baseball and pee wee football by the train tracks, bike riding, throwing plastic bags filled with water at wasps nests and torturing Andy’s little brother Matt by calling him Baby Hungry and Matt angrily retorting “F***ing Askholes!”
Charles left Metairie after 6th grade and Andy Wisdom had been aware of my cancer diagnosis through Lanier Watson, a former teacher of Andy and Charles and family friend of the Saltzman’s. When Andy was diagnosed with Lymphoma a few months ago Andy got in touch with Charles. Andy and I connected as well and realized we would all be in Houston the same 2 days for scans. What are the chances?
Andy, his wife Maria, Charles and I had the most wonderfully sweet evening together. It could have been an awful night of waiting and worrying, instead we got to spend it smiling and connecting with Andy and Maria. Thank you Wisdom’s for dinner and for all your warmth and great ease. We so enjoyed our serendipitous meeting.
Thank you friends and family for all your continued prayers and devotion to our family. There is no greater gift then to be loved. We are grateful and blessed.
Love Rules.
xoxo
Hilary, Maria, Charles and Andy