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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)

7.31.2009

Mike woke up this morning deciding he needed oxygen after all. So it took most of the day to get it delivered, but Mike is breathing a lot easier. His procedure (thoracentesis) will be done Monday, at 12:45. It is unclear if they will attempt to do one lung, or both.

Mike is still struggling to eat. I came home at lunch to make him something to eat, and he only ate one bite. There is so much fluid built up in his abdomen and lungs that it probably is pressing against his stomach, giving him the sensation of feeling full. But he is so thin, and desperately needs to eat.

His fever broke this evening...so the antibiotic is helping. I have seen some improvement around his drain.

Please continue to keep Mike in your prayers. He is so fragile right now. Thank you so much.
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