Week #9: Hug Your Mom!

I sat down tonight to write about Week #9 and instead we're overcome with the loss of our friend.

Today we lost our dear friend Barb Timmer, sister to our "second mother" Lori Allen. Barb lost her fight with Leukemia this morning, having only been diagnosed 4 weeks ago. Barb's prognosis was good to begin - a very beatable cancer - and then things slowly started to spin out of control. To make this harder to piece our hearts back together: Barb and John's 3 daughters, one of whom delivered baby twins just 2 days ago, and another daughter who is due in just weeks. I can't imagine where you even begin.

So instead this week I say, "Screw you Cancer!" In the last year we've watched our sister battle it every day. We found out a long time family friend and a colleague (two separate individuals) both now battle brain tumors. And today, we lost Barb. It's a disease that makes me terrified to bring Biff into this world for fear that he'd have to face loss like this or worse yet have to face it himself, but it's for that same reason that we have to keep giving way to new generations as perhaps that new baby will be the one that finds the cure to cancer some day.

Life's lesson: Who cares that the Colts are the absolute worst team in the NFL... go hug your mother. Or anyone else that you love for that matter and don't ever let go.