I created this blog in response to a close friend that is getting ready to begin the long road to healing from breast cancer. She is a beautiful woman and a great friend. It is very hard to watch someone hurt so much and not be able to help them and not really know if anything you are doing is helping or hurting. I just wanted a place to talk about the feelings of being a witness to such catastrophic events in the life of someone you love. A place to share the shock that something like this can happen to someone so young and someone so close to me. You see, there are friends I still get to see that I went to high school with. We spent some time apart as we were all beginning our families and lives, but several years ago we started getting together again regularly. It has been a lifeline for me. As I struggle in my adult life with being "likeable" or making "friends" only to have them walk away for one reason or the other, these friendships have become something I can really count on. It means more to me than I can even express in words. These women love me even though I can be very obnoxious and over-bearing, traits that often drive people away from me before they ever really get to know me. And now one of them is suffering and I don't know how to help her. Just a call now and then to see how she is, prayer, and many, many thoughts. Leigh, this if for you and for all of my friends from our girls-night-out group. Being a woman is so complicated and not near as much fun as it looks!