A really crappy March

Hello all -

Some of you may or may not already know, I went with my mother yesterday to a doctor's appt where we found out she has breast cancer. It's very small, she has a good attitude about everything, and her doctor is fantastic. If I had only known that I would be sent home with a bag of reading materials and homework...

This morning, however, I got a call from my mother that said my sister Karen is in the hospital. She flew up to Seattle last nite for a business trip, and to visit her fiance for the weekend, and this morning she had a stroke. Fortunately, she was taken immediately to a hospital, and airlifted from there to a bigger facility. The amount of blood leakage was small (as strokes go), but right now she is paralyzed on her left side. She is able to talk, slurring just a little bit (like she's drunk), and joked with the doctors and nurses that she got to take this really cool helicopter ride without her fiance.

We are holding our breath for the first 24 hours to see how things go, but I wanted to let everyone know, and ask for thoughts and prayers. Can hardly wait to see what the 3rd day of March holds for us ~

Lori