Shock....

I haven't blogged for a week because of the craziness that has been going on in my life....Last Monday I received the worst call of my life...3:00 pm...my twin sister had cancer....it is one of those moments you will never forgot....by far worst day ever...It all started a few weeks ago when she went to have a check up with her OBGYN because she is pregnant.  At the very last second she told him her throat hurt.  He felt her neck and said "I think you have a cyst on your thyroid".  He did an neck ultrasound and then referred her to an ENT.  All of this happened so fast.  The ENT said that 90% of the time it is not cancer...well, she was not one of the lucky ones...so by Wednesday she was in the hospital having her thyroid removed and a lymph node that had a small amount of cancer.  Now we just sit and wait until after the baby is born.  The doctor doesn't think it spread to the rest of her body.  Right after the baby is born she will isolate herself for 4 days and take some radioactive pills to kill any remnants. 

I have never cried so much in my life.  I ended up taking Thursday and Friday off...I am just grateful that we live in the Medical Center of the world...If you have cancer, you want to be in Houston.  Also, apparently if you are going to get cancer, you want it to by thyroid because it has very high rates of curing.  The type she has runs in families so I am going to get checked out soon...