Isn’t that just the truth??  Goes along with the idea that “Everybody has Something.”  Now if we could all just find a positive way to channel it.

Not always so easy.  I cried today.   I finally found a nice oncologist who takes my insurance.  I saw her on Tuesday, but she wants me to get right on scheduling the colonoscopy.  So I called to set up the appointment with the GI doctor and the first appointment was the day after our vacation.  As I hung up the phone cried – overwhelmed by ANOTHER doctor, ANOTHER appointment.  But it was my very smart Meghan who said, “Mommy if it is going to make you cry, just make it the next week.  You can still go, just a little later.”  I rescheduled.

My girl is in bed.  Sick and feverish.  We ducked an ER visit tonight, and am hoping to do the same tomorrow.  Along with the Cowden’s she just has a rotten immune system.

Who knows what tomorrow will bring, for any of us?

Tonight I will not be angry about the past, the diagnosis, the syndrome that has taken so much of our time, freedom, and spontaneity.  I will instead be grateful.  For the geneticist who cared enough to find me an oncologist when I couldn’t.  For the pediatrician who has called 3 times since we left his office at 2.

This past year has changed us, for sure.  Cowden’s Syndrome has transformed us into different people.  But I will never look back at this last year with eyes of regret or sorrow.  I look back with gratitude.  For the health I have, for the friends that have stood by me, for the new friends I have made, for my family.

Constantly changing, none of us are ever the same.   The question is WHAT do you want to change into?  I know what I pick…