I'm scared.

I got a message from my father. My mom had my younger sister, who is severely autistic, and they were meeting him for lunch at the mall. When she got there she got confused. She didn't know where she was or why she was there. They wandered the mall until my dad got worried and left the restaurant to find them. He said when she saw him she remembered what was going on and broke down.

He said there had been some minor memory loss before this, getting confused and very tired. They are going to the doctor today to see if it has to do with the thyroid meds but this episode was serious. There is a small history of Alzheimer's in the family, my great grandfather on her side being the only one that we know of. If there is no indication of her thyroid meds being off they are checking into it further.

This scares me. Very much.

Good news.

Part of the family drama that I have been dealing with is that my mother was diagnosed with cancer in late December, just days before Christmas. She had a lump on her thyroid and had to have the entire thing removed to be biopsied. It came back positive for cancer.

I forget the name of the cancer. They told us that the kind she had rarely jumped cell types but that it could get into her blood stream and attach itself to her other organs. In other words a rogue thyroid cell could attach itself to her liver and grow a tumor. It wouldn't be liver cancer, still thyroid, it would just be located in the wrong spot.

For treatment they gave her some pills that made her radio active for a week. These pills were supposed to find any and all thyroid cells, kill them, and highlight them so that after a few days they would show up on a body scan. Then the doctors would be able to see if they needed to take further action against the cancer.

My parents just called me with the good news. The body scan showed that not only were the thyroid cells located ONLY in her throat but that it also appeared to have killed them all off.

She will need to go through this once more in about 6 months, just to be safe, but the doctors were confident to call her cancer free.

Maybe there is hope for 2010 yet.

Congratulations!

I want to wish Best Wishes & Congratulations to my friends, T&T, married Saturday 6/20 and M&K married Sunday 6/21. We felt honored to attend your events.

Also Happy Fathers Day to all the dads out there!

A proud day.

My younger sister is 26 but autistic. She goes to ARC during the week and they keep her occupied "working" at the senior center & stuffing envelopes for the hospital. She doenst really get a paycheck for it since its a service for her.

Yesterday she calles me. This is the first time she has ever called me. Since it came up as Mom & Dad and I was at the Dr I just let it go to voice mail. I almost got hit by a car when I listened to it. She sounded so excited and was talking very fast, another unusual thing for her. I really wish I had kept that voice mail but I wasnt really thinking and just deleted it.

Anyway, she had called to tell me that SHE GOT A JOB!!!

She is going to be a housekeeper at a hotel & conference center in her home town. A few months ago she participated in an experimental program that taught her the basics of hotel housekeeping and setting up/tearing down conferences and thats what helped open up this door.

I am so proud of her. She went on the interview, even though the hotel people basically knew that they were going to hire her, and was able to answer all their questions with only a little help. They said they were very impressed with her and were excited to have her there. I think I am going to send her some flowers. I think she would like that.