Some People Have All The Luck

I swear, when it rains, it pours…

I just found out that Mary’s daughter was in a serious car accident on Saturday night. Like they didn’t have enough to deal with. Her daughter was driving home at night through a remote area, following a friend, driving too fast, hit a set of railroad tracks, went airborne, flipped three times and landed in a marsh 30 feet off of the roadway. If she hadn’t been following her friend, she might not have been found for a long time. They were going to fly a helicopter in because of the remoteness of the area, but we had very high winds this weekend, so they were unable to fly there. The paramedics and police were amazed that she was alive; they fully expected to find her dead in the car. She was partially ejected from the vehicle. It is by a sheer miracle alone that she came out of it with only a broken arm. She was in surgery yesterday to repair the two fractures in the arm and will be in the hospital for a couple of days.

In the meantime, Mary has had two scans over the past two weeks and had a biopsy done on her right lung on Friday. She was supposed to get a lot of rest this weekend, as the first 48 hours of recovery from the biopsy are crucial. Obviously, this hasn’t happened, so she is exhausted. Hopefully, it won’t affect her health too negatively.

Mary sees her oncologist this Friday to get the results of all of the testing and determine the course of treatment. He said before that the cancer is definitely back and that it is metastatic. The tests are to determine where the cancer is located (lungs are most likely, possibly some in the brain) so that they can develop the best course of treatment for her. It is likely to be intensive and aggressive treatment as they’ve caught the lung cancer later than desired.

Please keep her in your thoughts and prayers, especially on Friday.