Leap Of Faith
It is amazing what can happen when you are willing to take a leap of faith . I have done many things in life but by the time I was in my late 30`s, my life had pretty much become €śget up, go to work, come home, watch TV and go to sleep€ť. I wasn`t unhappy, but I wasn`t happy with my life , but I wasn`t happy either. I was just sailing along. Then one day I met a group of people on line from Florida and we were all posting on a board created by one of them. I really enjoyed our conversations, especially with one of them. One day, they had decided to have a get together.
I lived all the way on the other side of the country in California. Then I did something that was very uncharacteristic of me, I got an airline ticket and flew to Florida to meet a group of people I had only otherwise conversed with online.
But as with all other momentous decisions in my life, this would be one that changed my life. I met the love of my life, and now he is my husband.
Art has always been a part of my life, but I had never been able to do it for a living. When I moved to Florida, I now had the opportunity and have started my own business. I started by making mosaics. I love glass and how the light shines and bounces off it. I had my first show and I did well and I received some commissions. I was preparing for my wedding on New Year`s Eve. My whole family was coming.
Of course life can`t always be that simple. I had been having female problems for several years and it had been attributed by my doctor to starting to go into menopause. But then one week before Thanksgiving 2002 I was in such pain, I had my then fiancé drive me to the emergency room. Thank goodness I did. I was very sick, closer to dying than I had ever been because I was so anemic that I was close to cardiac arrest. The next night they did exploratory surgery.
On Friday, my birthday, the doctor came to see me in the afternoon and told me I had cancer. I never thought that I would take it as calmly as I did. I have always been frightened of cancer, mostly of the cancer treatments. But my doctor called in a GYN Oncologist who told me, no chemotherapy, just radiation and only if it has broken through the uterus.
My family was in tears, my fiancé was stretched to t
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