Life Is Precious

I just found out one of my aunts passed away this morning. About a month ago she became very sick. They quickly learned that her bone marrow was no longer creating new blood cells like it should, an effect of cancer treatment about 30 years ago for lymphoma. She was actually the only person alive still that had received the treatment. She had blood transfusions and started to be stable. Then they did chemotherapy to try and get the bone marrow to work and fight any cancer that may be coming back. After one round of treatment, she said she was done. The side effects were just too great. She would rather spend her last days healthy than sick. She was still willing to get blood transfusions, but she was done with everything else.

She didn't want anyone to visit. Her younger sister (there are three sisters and two brothers in my mom's family) forced her way in because she lives in the same area. But, she didn't want my mom or her brothers to come visit. I know this is probably really hard on my mom. I found out from Facebook, as my mom posted on my wall about the death...

Life had finally returned to something they wanted. They had a grandson they got to see regularly after "loosing" their other grandkids after their son had a head injury that completely changed him (resulted in a divorce and the kids' mom moving them across country and making visits and contact difficult). They were enjoying life. And then this happened.

It really makes you realize how savoring every day is important. We need to live life like today may be the last. That doesn't mean we do anything crazy thinking today IS our last day. But, we need to accept that today MAY be our last day. Or it may be the last day for someone we love.

Are you ready?

Dentist

So, I took the kids to the dentist today. They went back in October/November. AJU6 went because his front two teeth were short and discolored back in October, and it turned out to just bee some staining and genetics. I took AJU5 back a few weeks later since we liked the office we went to. She was not very cooperative, so I didn't know how today would go at all.

Turns out both kids did AWESOME! AJU5 only whined/cried once. She was completely cooperative during the cleaning, fluoride treatment, and even an x-ray. Then, shortly after all that she threw up... That is what caused the crying, which I can understand. But the dentist bribed her with a sucker (that she didn't get to eat until we were home), and she sat still for him to look at her teeth, etc too. Then it was AJU6's turn. The dentist decided to try him in the big chair instead of the lap board, and he was quite cooperative. The other dentist (it is a father/son team) walked through the area and joked about us drugging him. He even sat still for the dentist to polish a few of his teeth that had a tiny bit of staining.

Both kids do have alignment issues thanks to their love of pacifiers, but other than that their teeth are perfect. I am just relieved that there was no fighting at all today!

(Hopefully I will catch up on some posts I have planned to write sometime in the next month. I know, I am terrible at blogging these days!)