Yea, I know, I'm no slacker whatsoever but I do tend to put things off for various reasons.
I hope this update finds you all doing well and that your health is in tip top shape. I say that with my Amanda in mind but also being that my husbands cousin Priscilla is still fighting and my son sent me a text the other day that he needs to quit smoking because he's coughing up blood (I'm sure though that as of the writing of this, he has in fact NOT quit smoking nor will he consider it serious).


I wrote previously (in January) about how cancer patients should look. (It weighs heavy on my heart) that this world considers you a cancer patient only if you are bald or wearing a bandana and female? You're only a cancer patient if you look sickly? You're only a cancer patient if you are Casper colored white and look like you are going to die on your next deep breath?


Someone should most certainly stand up and say otherwise! My daughter cant work right now but she is still raising Miss Lena and still drives her car and still cooks and cleans and sleeps and snores and maybe you get the picture. She is still normal folks. She is still alive! She is still a mom, my daughter.


I'm quite frustrated about this topic and here is another reason I get so irritated. I had a gal contact me about doing a fundraiser for Amanda. She had just had her car impounded for the 2nd time since having to quit working and this lady says she wants to see if she can help. How very nice of her, there are still kind people in the world, right? As she is putting together the fundraiser flyer etc she says to me...I'm trying to get this together but do you have any other pictures? All the ones on FB  are of her smiling and looking healthy. It's hard to sell the idea if she looks so healthy. She just doesn't look sick and like she has cancer. So, in short, how sad.


I think its quite awesome that my daughter has papers to PROVE that she has cancer and yet she still has a smile on her face and although she is tired and weak, she still gets up everyday to take care of Miss Lena (the best she can) and keeps on going strong! I'm thrilled that all her pics on FB show a big ol smile and her pearly whites. Her prognosis is not good. She and I both know that. We do however keep praying and holding out hope that her pearly whites will shine through many more years of photos ALL OVER FB and ever single SURVIVOR blog/site/paper etc.


If you care to support her even if she doesn't LOOK like she has cancer and is dying (lol) she still has a Gofundme page.