BAM!

I have been busier with work in the past two weeks than I have ever been in my life. It’s been wild, and hard, but good and  I was coping alright until I found a lump on my middle daughter’s neck the size of a half-golfball.

That will make the world stand still for you.

I’ve taken her in to see the doctor and it’s a very swollen lymph node, so we’re trying a round of antibiotics to see if it responds to that. In the meantime, I am plagued by worries, thoughts of worst-case scenarios, and sleepless nights with desperate prayers.

My girl.

Life: so fleeting, so fragile and how quickly we forget. Swallowed up by to-do lists and phone calls and emails and chores and then BAM! All that matters comes boiling to the surface in a fury: my kids, my husband, our family and our health.

Nothing else.

If you do pray, can you for Karenna? And maybe me too.