Please Pray

This is my sweet mother-in-law. She is truly wonderful. I love her very much. I think she has loved me since the first time she meet me. I don't know why. She hugged me as soon as she meet me. Daddy-O told me later that she was not a hugger. I think she was just really grateful that her son had brought someone home besides all his hungry guy friends. Maybe there was hope that one day his clothes would match and he would not be moving back home after college.

We celebrated her 78th birthday last week. Three-fourths of the kids and I drove to Dickson to meet her, my father-in-law and two of my sister-in-laws for lunch. We went to a Chinese restaurant.

This is what you get there if you are celebrating your birthday.

Pretty cute, huh?

A rabbit made from a boiled egg eating carrots.

About three weeks ago she was diagnosed with breast cancer. It was detected very early and the tumor is very small. The day we meet for lunch she had come from the Cardiologist to make sure she was healthy enough for surgery.  This past Tuesday she meet with the Oncologist to discuss her options. She will have a lumpectomy on this Monday followed by six weeks of radiation.

If you are the praying type, please pray for her. She is a very devout Catholic and will appreciate any prayers you send her way. I feel confident she will do fine with the surgery. The six weeks of radiation afterward will be difficult on her and my father-in-law. They will have to drive over an hour each way each day. If you will please keep them in your prayers over the next few weeks we will all be very grateful.