Only 2 weeks to go

Thanksgiving is this week so I don't have radiation on Thursday. I also don't have it on Friday. So many of the patients were going to be out of town so they moved Friday's radiation to today, Sunday, November 23rd. As of today I have completed 20 of the 30 radiation treatments. Three more this week, five next week, and the final two in two weeks.

Today when I came out of radiation there was a whole family waiting with the next patient. They weren't waiting in the waiting room by the office. They were standing right outside the door to the treatment area. That was a little uncomfortable because all you have on is a short sheet wrapped around where your shirt should be and my skirt for church. Luckily the dressing room was only a few feet away. While I was changing, the family broke out into a shouting match. They were fighting over how some of the family was treating the patient, an older woman, like she was already dead. They were making her do what they wanted her to do, not what she wanted to do. All I could think is that I felt bad for her that her family was letting this pull them apart instead of pulling them closer together. I am so grateful that my family and friends are helping me by pulling together instead of adding to the stress. In the end all we can take with us is our relationships with our family and friends and our testimony of Christ. Nothing else matters. It is so sad that people let things like selfishness, greed, material possessions, ego, hurt feelings, the need to always be right, etc rob them of the only things that matter.