Not a great thing to wake up to

Something told me to check my email this morning. My friend Cheri had sent me a message. About 3 or 4 weeks ago, her little Madelyn (same age as my Evan), had pneumonia. They took her to the hospital and did some scans and gave her breathing treatments and sent her home. Madelyn has been doing fine. Unfortunately, the x-rays showed a mass on her lung. Last week, they went in for a better scan, and the tumor is baseball sized and coming off of her right lung and heading toward her spine. They did a CT scan yesterday and that’s what proved all that. Today, she’s having an MRI so that the doctors can see if it’s affecting her spine and what the plan of action will be when it comes time to do surgery. Madelyn comes home today and they go back in on Monday for a biopsy. She’ll spend a couple of days in the hospital for recovery. After that, it’s waiting for results. IF it is cancer, they’ll start chemo right away to shrink it so it can be removed. If it’s not cancerous, it depends on what kind of tumor it is before they come up with a strategy for removal or just watching it to see if it grows.

Cheri didn’t tell anybody but family right away. She didn’t know what to do. I sent her an email stating that I’m there for her. Even if it’s just to sit in the same room with her. On Monday, I’m sending a gift basket to Madelyn at the hospital. My poor sweet little girl. It’s not fair. It’s SO not fair.

Madelyn is my little buddy. Cheri and I were pregnant at the same time with our babies. I just can’t imagine what she’s going through. It breaks my heart in more ways than I thought possible.