Monthly Archives: September 2012

Our Story

I’m not going to lie, the past two days I’ve felt emotionally wiped out.  All I’ve wanted to do is sleep.  My energy feels low and my spirits have been a little down.  I thought it might be therapeutic to share mine and Andrew’s love story with those of you who don’t know it.  This… Read more »

Drink It Up

Walking through M.D. Anderson today was both challenging and inspiring.  Although I didn’t feel prepared for what I was about to see, the experience moved me.  I saw both suffering and hope. I saw strength and weakness.  For the first time I realized that things were about to completely change for my family.  So far… Read more »

Handling the Heards

If my life was a reality television series the ratings would have been through the roof this weekend.  It all started on Thursday morning when we went in for Andrew’s biopsy. Two hours into surgery, the doctor told us he was unable to drill into the bone marrow.  The wind was completely knocked out of… Read more »

Carried by LOVE

It’s taken me a week to build up the strength to write.  I’m not even sure I’m in the right state of mind to be writing a blog, but hopefully it will be therapeutic.  On Sept. 11, 2012 I found out that my husband Andrew, a 29 year old non-smoker, has a tumor in his… Read more »