My Song

We breathed a sign of relief and found some humor in the fact that we’d all noticed that his hands were very steady and sure as he wrote instructions for us to follow pre-surgery. However, I left his office that day with my head down and my feet dragging. I overheard his nurse say to my children, your mother will be in for the fight of her life.” My heart sank along with any hope I had of beating this giant. I’ve never considered myself a fighter. As I waited for surgery day, those words repeated themselves in my mind over and over! “Your mother will be in for the fight of her life.”