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Drill King:
Today is my mother's birthday. I made her a cake.

However! Her boyfriend of 7 years proposed to her, right in front of all of us, it was so sweet and clumsily said but really really nice.

Barmymoo:
Today I met some German people who speak more English than I expected and who will be welcoming me into their home for several weeks and entrusting me with their children during the summer. This was exciting! I now have to decide if I want to go to the seaside with them (free holiday! Sunshine! Fluency in foreign language! Lots of small children to look after!) or honour a commitment made several months ago which is nevertheless merely a weekend in England. I am finding it much harder than you'd expect to make myself believe that it's an opportunity not to be missed, because (when is this not the case with teenagers?) the boy I am meant to be going to said weekend with is someone I'm very fond of.

But the really exciting part is that I'm going to Germany, whether or not I go to the seaside. And the flights are much cheaper than we'd thought, and my passport has arrived (it's inexplicably full of pictures of birds, presumably to make it hard to copy) so really things are going quite smoothly. Eeee! Holiday! Foreign places! Little children! I know most people wouldn't appreciate the last one but it's a major appeal for me.

Also today I dug four splinters out of my fingers. Four! There is not a finger on my right hand which was not injured in some way last week. I grated my index finger and thumb whilst trying to grate chocolate (and got blood in the chocolate), and then I fell into a gorse bush. My hand hurts.

Liz, won't your mum notice that you have disappeared to Toronto? Or do you in fact live in Toronto? I forget these things.

Drill, say happy birthday to your mum from the internets. Also congratulations. Sounds like she had a good day!

Aminal:
Hey blog thread, try this one on for size.

I'm in a strange mood and I feel like nothing I'll say here will come out right.  But I'm going to go ahead and try because other avenues have failed me.  My boyfriend's mother was diagnosed with cancer two weeks after I met her, which was New Year's 2007.  Everyone panicked, she went through treatment, it was shitty but as of October 2007, she was cancer-free.

Well, she starts radiation therapy tomorrow because now it's been detected in her bones and perhaps lymph nodes.  It's hard to be clear on the latter because everyone is, once again, panicking.  I am several hundred miles away and each day I talk to my boyfriend about 5 times and struggle to distract him from how terrified and helpless he feels.  These discussions are good for both of us, but I need to recharge and somehow, when I did post this in my blog a few days ago no one had anything to say.  One person replied, and I'm grateful she did.  The blog is usually how I keep in touch with my longtime friends from high school and college, people who are very close to me and we're very good about reading each other's posts and staying up to date.  The friend that I'd visited with for hours the day before couldn't be troubled to hit Reply and type a few words.

I know this is scary and people don't know what to say, but I wish they had said something.  Anything.  I feel like I screamed something out and it just echoed away into nothingness.  I'm scared, but I can be strong for my boyfriend and myself if I just feel like I'm not so alone.  But it's like I'm invisible all of a sudden!  Will someone just fucking acknowledge that this is happening?  That's all I need.

jhocking:
Fucking friends, mirite? You'll be all "damn yo heavy shit is going down in my life right now!" and they'll be all "actually I'm pretty busy kthxbai."

Barmymoo:
Cancer is terrifying, and I can see why it's even harder since you're miles and miles away. I believe that statistically people are increasingly likely to recover but that's not exactly very helpful when it's actually happening. I hope the radiation therapy goes well, that's a horrible thing to go through but anything's worth trying. Don't worry about your friends not being too helpful, they probably couldn't think of much to say or possibly didn't read it yet. It doesn't mean they don't care.

Chin up :-)

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