Early Xmas Shopping, cancer luncheon

early Dec. 2007

I arrived a bit late (the invite said 11 0’clock to 1:30 p.m.) so had to quickly scoot into a seat to one side of the gathering. It was a December gathering, a Christmas luncheon for breast cancer survivors, and other survivors of cancer treatments, as it turns out. I met my former pastor there and he looked good. “Father Bob” was between leukemia treatments and handling it much better. Though he had to go every four weeks for these “combination” treatments because his leukemia had come back, he said it was much easier than the “fusion” treatments he had to take initially.
Even with my seeming ‘allergy’ to wheat recently, all the baked goodies with the broccoli and chicken casserole were too tempting not to eat. The fudge was good, though. Everyone in this group of 20 or so people talked about their background (how long it’d been since their breast cancer diagnosis – mine had been barely two years) what they were happy about and thankful for this year. I mentioned joining “Curves,” and was trying to get in better shape.
Some comments were rather tearful, but most were hopeful. You need that frame of mind as you go Christmas shopping and look to the days and months ahead. I hope for better things in 2008. Don’t you?