My beautiful sister, Carrie Lynn and her husband Eric.
She came into my life right after I turned one. For the next 15 years we would laugh, play, cry, love, and fight with one another. We have shared many tears and sorrows, my sister and I...yet, I love her as much as anyone could love someone.
Her husband has been fighting Ewing's sarcoma for some time now. He is 34 I think. Eric has had part of his leg amputated, and yet the cancer is still in his body. They have fought hard, tried all the chemo available, went through a trial program, and now are using a different method to try to slow the growth of the cancer.
I have watched my sister through all of this. Her tiny, barely 100 pound frame...doing whatever she could for this man that she loves. They have traveled back and forth hundreds of miles for treatments, and she has been there for him. I have heard the fear and worry in her voice...that only a sister can hear...when she says, "We're gonna fight this...the doctor's aren't always right!" I have heard her tears over a phone line...and tried so desperately to encourage and to love her. She is stronger than I ever knew. I have heard her talk of the Lord and answered prayer. I have listened to her excitement over bills that have been paid...when they were waiting for disability checks to start arriving.
Twenty years ago, when we were just teenagers...I realized how very much I loved her. I agonized over her, and wept over her way back then. She was having some trouble, I wanted so much to help her...here I am 20 years later, still wanting the same thing.
Now she is in the midst of a battle. An every day fight, against the unseen enemy of cancer. I feel so helpless, so unable to help her. I want to run to her and scoop her up and fix everything scary and painful in her life, and yet she faces her day like a soldier.
Although I try to think of things to say that will encourage her or help in some small way, it never seems to be enough.
Please pray for them...and for strength to face each day ahead. There is nothing more I can do, than to pray.
What a sweet testimony of love towards your sister and of her great strength! I will pray for them.lv-nancy
ReplyDeleteSuch a special, heartfelt tribute to your sister. I, too, will be praying.
ReplyDeleteI found your blog through google. My sister is also facing the same battle as yours. Her husband was diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme in July. The prognosis is poor. This post could have been written by me. Thank you so much for sharing. Watching my sister go through this, seeing the man she loves more than anything in this world (besides their two kids) battle for his life, has been devastating and she is always on my mind. I will be thinking of and praying for your family as I pray for mine.
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