.. And she's clear..

Part of the reason my blog has been so sporadic lately is that l have been taking care of one of my older sisters. She was diagnosed with breast cancer a few months ago! This totally threw me for a loop. It was quite unexpected. It was even worse because we hadn't been close for such a long time. She had ostracized herself from the whole family and l had no contact with her despite the fact that we live in the same city. I'll tell you though, nothing like the big C to pull everyone together and band up against this nasty disease. She did her rounds of Chemo at Baylor University here in Houston on a new drug trial basis. Unfortunately, the shrink wasn't enough, so she underwent a mastectomy 2 weeks ago. She had her checkup yesterday post operation and thank God, she got a clean bill of health. She is healing nicely and the drainage bags were removed. I am so thankful, l just regret the fact that it took such a horrible thing for us to come together as a family again. My dad died of colon cancer and l've since learned that cancer is prevalent in my family, so l need to have myself checked out. Part of me doesn't want to.. but l do have to, l know.. We're making up for lost time though, and l am amused by the fact that despite her being completely bald right now, her hair will grow back faster than mine! That! totally sucks! :o(