New Way to be Human

Nov. 18 2004, my Mom was diagnosed with Stage IV Lung Cancer. I started this blog to chronicle her journey. July 19, 2005 she gave her life in the battle. This blog is my place to process through the journey I walked along with her, and now my journey through grief. It's also a place to discuss the effects cancer has on the lives it touches--survivors and caregivers alike. I'm a Navy wife, a Mom, and my mother's daughter now and forever.

Monday, May 15, 2006

And Then....

And then there are the times that you don't know what the heck to do to help....

And you don't know if your help is really helping or hurting.

See... I don't know much afterall. I think my last post still has some helpful nuggets in it, but even with having gleaned those thoughts I'm at a loss at how to support my friends now... and I'm wondering if the things that I *have* done have really been a help.

I pray that they have.

posted by Val @ 12:18 PM  

2 Comments:

  • At 4:33 PM, Blogger snot said…

    oh big hugs!!!

    i am dying too...my cancer is all over and i have only a relatively short time left and i want you to know that your previous post was like a god-send to me...i have very few real life friends and my expartner and her current partner are having another baby by c-section next week (which will be the 6th in the house---two are me and my ex's and three are her partner's from her marraige and now this baby will make 6) with that in mind they just cannot help much for me...

    so on my local groups i am on people say the whole "let me know what i can do if you need anything"...well what i need is someone that can bring me something to eat when i cannot do it myself or do my laundry once a week or bring me soda or whatever but it is always the same question...i answer what i need but nothing materializes from that unfortunately...

    if you are doing only a fraction of what you wrote about then you are doing it all right hun...

    take care and know i will think often of you and your friends....

    always,
    melissa

     

  • At 9:10 PM, Blogger Being Made said…

    Thank you Melissa, for all of your sweet comments. I've been reading your blog as well, and my heart aches for you. Know that I am praying for you and will continue to do so.

     

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