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In 2007, I began my original website, Sonshine's Haven. In 2007, it was turned into a blog and used to keep family updated on my first husband's fight with liver cancer. He passed away November of 2009. We were married for 34+ wonderful years and this journals some of that grief process I've gone through.

I have since remarried another widower, but Mike is missed dearly, and will always be a big part of my life.

At times, all of us will be called to act as witnesses to the suffering of another. We will be unable to affect the outcome physically. Words will fail us. Prayer will seem futile. And yet, the act of bearing witness to someone else's trials is a sacred sorrow that offers and astounding glimpse of eternal joy." by Ginger Garrett

"Being willing to stay with a loved one throughout their travail, can be difficult....YES! But offering yourselves as faithful companions on a dark and dreadful journey can be an unmeasured blessing." (paraphrased by me)

4.01.2009

Mike feels better this morning. He never got out of bed last night after we returned from Little Rock, so he had several hours of sleep. He was in a bit of pain, nauseated, tired, and was running a low temperature when I went to bed last evening. And because of the way his bandages looked this morning when I changed them, I'm guessing they had a little difficulty getting Mike's right drain in.

It troubles me, how something so simple in Houston, can be so complicated here. It's the simple things...like the difference between the sedation they offer, the sutures and how comfortable Mike is after they are put in, the recovery time from the procedure, to even the care in between exchanges. If it weren't for the 8 hour difference, and the cost of traveling to Houston every two months, all of this would be less stressful having this done there. There are just two completely different ways of handling this, I guess.

Anyway, the stress from yesterday and last night, tired me out quite a bit, so I have been moving slowly this morning. I just wanted you to know Mike is doing better this morning. Thank you for continuing to keep us in your thoughts and prayers.
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