Author: Katycanyon

Tom and I spent three weeks down at UCLA in the hospital. They attempted surgery to remove the tumor. During his surgery I sat there alone in the hospital room waiting. This feeling of warmth came over me at one point and this song came on that sang “ be the butterfly that you are…

We settled Tom into a hospital bed at his parents house which was fortunately just 10 minutes away from the kids and me. Our biggest challenge now was keeping him eating , gaining strength and most importantly keeping his ileostomy bag sealed so his incision could heal properly to reduce the risk of a bacterial…

Before Tom ended up in the hospital I heard news that one of my beautiful friends who had moved away had committed suicide. She left two teenagers and hole in my heart. Tom was continuing to decline. Losing weight and his fever spiked. I got in to a car accident that day as well. Thankfully…

It had been two days since the butterfly came home. I was feeding her, but she seemed quite content in my roses not wanting to fly . I was beginning to think she wouldn’t and maybe my gut feel that Shelly would have a message for me was wrong. Well just as I was beginning…