Thanks, Mike. Your kind words mean a lot.

Isabella and I have been talking on and off today. She is more worried about me, she does not like to see me cry. We talked about cryiing and she told me that in health class they are learning about stress. So SHE WAS HELPING ME with suggestions to deal with the stress. She does know more about what is going on . . . I am letting myself realize that I can't be all things to all people. We have been talking and we all agree that crying is okay . . . I am not going to hide from them, they need honest answers and need to learn how we deal with the good, bad and in this case the ugliness of life. She also called my Dad last night and she apologized to him. Boy, parenting sure is a journey and they amaze me every day. We need to just do some fun family things this weekend to make it seem normal around here.

I am learning to ask for help, which is why I am at OCF. I was never really good at that before. Now if I can only convince my Dad to just let us do what we can for him. He does not like to be "babied".

Take Care, Mike. I see you are 10 Year Cancer Survivor . . . you are an inspiration!

Laura