The Other Rachel
I must start this post with a warning. This one is not funny.
These last few days have left me heavy hearted for two close friends. They are both dealing with things that I can describe in no other way than to say...it's unfair.
Both are wonderful, beautiful, fantastical people. Both are facing things that are hard, bitter and emotional. Their specific troubles lie at opposite ends of the spectrum, but I am equally bummed about both.
Don't you just hate weeks like this? Weeks where you just seem to get bad news after bad news about people that you love? That is this week for me.
One of these people is a friend of mine named, Rachel. I met Rachel at my home Church years and years ago. I am older than her (by about 7 years I think) so there was a lot of years I knew of her, but did not know her.
She would turn out to be a kindred spirit.
I recruited her to perform in a mystery dinner theater that I had written and was going to perform at some local churches. It took nothing to convince her to hop on board. When it comes to writing and performing, I would learn, Rachel is an "all in" kind of person.
She helped me finish my script, we bounced ideas back and forth and I came to adore her incredible intelligence and amazing sense of humor. She played one of the main characters to perfection. Everyone in our rag tag cast thought/thinks a lot of her.
This week I learned that she is facing the toughest performance of her life...Non Hodgkins Lymphoma. Oh how many times have I said to myself, "this isn't fair." She shouldn't have to deal with hospitals and chemo treatments. She shouldn't have to take heavy cocktails and be on a first name basis with nurses at Emory.
In my moment of anger and sorrow, oddly enough, I turned to her blog. She has begun her journey in true Rachel fashion...fearlessly and by making us laugh. I know in my soul that she CAN do this. She CAN go through this journey. I just so wish she didn't have to.
I told you in the beginning that this post would not be funny, no, for that, I'm going to let my good friend, Rachel take over. To steal a quote from her CaringBridge site, "Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand." ~Mark Twain
Thank you for your transparency, Rachel. I love you so much!
Check out her blog! - Lymph to Victory
These last few days have left me heavy hearted for two close friends. They are both dealing with things that I can describe in no other way than to say...it's unfair.
Both are wonderful, beautiful, fantastical people. Both are facing things that are hard, bitter and emotional. Their specific troubles lie at opposite ends of the spectrum, but I am equally bummed about both.
Don't you just hate weeks like this? Weeks where you just seem to get bad news after bad news about people that you love? That is this week for me.
One of these people is a friend of mine named, Rachel. I met Rachel at my home Church years and years ago. I am older than her (by about 7 years I think) so there was a lot of years I knew of her, but did not know her.
She would turn out to be a kindred spirit.
I recruited her to perform in a mystery dinner theater that I had written and was going to perform at some local churches. It took nothing to convince her to hop on board. When it comes to writing and performing, I would learn, Rachel is an "all in" kind of person.
She helped me finish my script, we bounced ideas back and forth and I came to adore her incredible intelligence and amazing sense of humor. She played one of the main characters to perfection. Everyone in our rag tag cast thought/thinks a lot of her.
This week I learned that she is facing the toughest performance of her life...Non Hodgkins Lymphoma. Oh how many times have I said to myself, "this isn't fair." She shouldn't have to deal with hospitals and chemo treatments. She shouldn't have to take heavy cocktails and be on a first name basis with nurses at Emory.
In my moment of anger and sorrow, oddly enough, I turned to her blog. She has begun her journey in true Rachel fashion...fearlessly and by making us laugh. I know in my soul that she CAN do this. She CAN go through this journey. I just so wish she didn't have to.
I told you in the beginning that this post would not be funny, no, for that, I'm going to let my good friend, Rachel take over. To steal a quote from her CaringBridge site, "Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand." ~Mark Twain
Thank you for your transparency, Rachel. I love you so much!
Check out her blog! - Lymph to Victory
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