Hmmm. I though you guys would leap at the "Two Things" challenge. Maybe you're still working on it. Well, anyway, moving on...
My old roommate's mom was a very proper Southern lady from Nashville. We used to laugh about how she would carefully mouth the word "cancer" rather than speak it out loud: "Well, you know Betty Lou's husband has c a n c e r," she'd say, relegating it to the same impolite category as herpes or mental illness. Cancer has a scary sound to it - she wouldn't mouth the phrase heart disease, for example.
Don't worry, I'm not about to announce I have c a n c e r, except for a little skin lesion now and then (loved that baby oil when I was 14!) Since half my immediate family has had the real thing (all survivors!), it does lurk as a possibility, but so do a lot of things.
It's on my mind today for two reasons. First, I went in this morning for my annual skin check, and for those who haven't done this, let me tell you: there could be nothing more fun than having a handsome young doctor examine every inch of your bare skin under fluorescent lights. Then he cuts away bits of it to examine even more closely. Ah, yes, I did look great with a tan all those years...
But, more important than my skin, another member of our knitting group is preparing for surgery in a few days for breast cancer. Like any fanatical devoted knitter, Julie's looking at it as an opportunity to get a lot of projects done. I'm standing by for emergency yarn shop runs as needed.
You can head over to her blog and leave some encouraging words if you'd like. While you're there, be sure to check out the breast prosthesis (aka the titbit) she's knitting up. Hilarious, and quite practical, really.
Julie's had quite an eventful year, so here's a wish that 2009 is quiet in all the best ways.
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