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PRESENT

The next morning Mike and my son Bobby left for a hockey tournament in Denver. I had to cancel my trip so I could lay in a pet scan. A pet scan shows weather the tumors have spread to the soft tissue. This wasn't really my idea of a great weekend. I couldn't get the results of the test until Tuesday. I had set an appointment up with Mike's oncologist Dr. G. The rest of the weekend I spent with my mom and sister Debbie who came over from LA. By this time the bones were pressing against nerves and causing a great deal of pain. It would get worse on a daily bases. I couldn't understand what was happening and I was popping pain pills like candy. I was glad Mike and Bobby were gone the stress was to hard for them to handle. I could pretend that I was fine if they weren't around. When they got home we would find out more and find out if I was going to live or die. Yeah that's not stress not at all.

PAST

I always knew that Mike was a great guy, from the first time we met in that smokey bar 3 years earlier. I remember that he was the first guy that really treated, Jenni my daughter, as part of me. So many men before him treated her as a burden, but not Mike. He always just went with the flow and I soon found out that nobody didn't like Mike. Even my mother fell in love with him. She said he reminded her of my father. Even said he laughed like him. We married May 28Th 1988 in a beautiful backyard ceremony with about 150 of friends and relatives. 125 of them were on Mikes side. We had a great first year of marriage. My sister got married 6 weeks later up in Canada to the greatest hockey player in the world. It was amazing to see such fan fare and introduced Mike to a whole new world. We also that year had a new baby girl Alexandria Marie. Jenni had a new father that loved her like his own daughter. Everything was going along perfectly no more running. At least I thought. My world as I knew it was about to come to a crashing halt. The bad luck I thought I only had was gone, but it was about to return with a vengeance.