Short post...more added

Really short...I have company. More later.

OKAY! I'm back for a minute. The "company" I have is my son, Jon.

For those of you who know me, you already know this. For a while I wasn't ready to talk about it on a blog, but I am now. This will be short, and I'm not seeking sympathy, but just want you to know what's going on here. And why I post some short posts some days. And why I quit the sort of posts that I have to be committed to each week (Green Thumb Sunday, Weekly Word Challenge, etc). I will get back to them some day, but not right now.

My 36 year old son is very ill. He has terminal cancer and has quit treatments of any kind. In Feb. the docs gave him 6 months to a year to live. He and I have been estranged for almost 8 months (he was having a terrible time dealing with his cancer mentally and with all the drugs and chemo he of sort of went off the deep end and he took it out on me, Andy and my family) He finally has come back into our lives again and I'm so happy about it. I was afraid he'd die without ever getting to see him again or without ever telling him I loved him. We have totally forgiven and forgotten all the bad happenings from before and are back together for whatever time he has left.

They say God works in mysterious ways and I truly believe this. It was God and the Bible that have brought Jon back to me. For all the prayers and love I've been shown by my friends, family and co-workers, I am eternally grateful. I truly believe it's all the prayers that have made a difference. I honestly thought I would never see my son alive again. He totally wrote us off and wanted nothing to do with us. He said it was Bible passages that made him decide to contact us and to quit being mad. He has apologized for all the hurt he caused us and is very loving and has changed so much from the angry young man who left here 8 month ago. You have to know my son to know how much he's changed. He never used to say he loved anyone but his kids...he was bitter and hateful about lots of things that happened in his life (we lost his dad, my DH, to cancer when Jon was 23 years old, after watching him suffer for 2 years...also his wife divorced him in a bitter ugly proceeding...both of these things had a terrible and profound effect on his life) But now, it's like, in this terrifying process of death, he's been re-born.

He is here for a few days to visit and I've been cooking all his favorites and spending lots of time with him. It pains him to travel any distance, and even tho he lives only about 8 miles from me, he has such pain when he rides in a car, he has to recouperate for a couple days after even going that far. He's 6'4" and weighs just over 150 lbs. He's very weak and shaky. It makes me very happy when he eats a good big serving of some rich, healthy dish. He does that a lot when he's here.

This is still going to be short and not too detailed, but I wanted to explain why sometimes I may be absent other than a quickie post to keep my Blog365 commitment.

Here's Jon and his son Jie with Jie's first fish last summer on the trip we all took to our cabin (Jon, his kids, Andy and me) just after he found out he had cancer.



Please pray for us, if you're so inclined. But just know, I don't want sympathy, but just happiness that I have my son back.