A good friend of ours found out he has stage 4 cancer last week. It's been hard for me I'm not going to lie. This family isn't one that we do everything with but I have always considered them good friends. They are the type of people that would give you the shirt off their back even if it was the only one they had. They have 6 kids- 4 of which are at home still. It's a little bit of a reality slap in the face to me. Crap happens and it seems to happen more to good people then bad for some reason. I don't know if that's because God knows they can handle it or whatever.
Bryan and Alan after they won the church ball regional championship.
Our trip to yellowstone with the Blad family.
It looks like he has cancer in his head, neck, lungs, spine (it broke one of his disks in his back) and abdomen. At least the ones I know of. He has been in the hospital for a few weeks. I've been really, really touched to see how many people in our ward and ex members of our ward have reached out to help them. Even some that are not really close to them want to help. It makes me tear up a little bit at the kindness in the area that I live in. I hope if something ever happened to me or Bryan my ward and friends would step in like this. Bryan spent part of last week fixing things that are broken in their home and members of the relief society and I (me only a little) have been helping deep clean their home so it's clean and germ free when he finally gets home before his treatments start. Life is so fleeting. You know I honestly am not afraid of death but I am afraid of leaving my boys. I want to be around while they grow up. I imagine Alan feels the same way. I pray that he gets that wish.
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