It's time to wrap up our series with Mapping the Journey: Pancreatic Cancer 101... Yet, so hard to find the finish line...
There is much still on my heart to share. Did we really just scratch the surface? Each journey so unique, yet bound together by the hurt and hope of this cancer road...
Most Journeys end with a specific destination in mind. Our GPS navigators need an address to point to. An end of the road, a stopping point...
We laugh with dear friends over their recent trip to Niagara Falls. Despite all their careful planning, a reservation snafu about did them in. They had excitedly researched their scenic road trip and planned short, overnight stays at several charming Bed and Breakfasts within a couple hours of the Falls and Lake Ontario.
All went well until the morning they plugged their next Bed and Breakfast destination into their GPS and discovered that they had made reservations at an Inn 16 hours away... Turns out that Prince Edward Island and Prince Edward County are indeed two very different destinations!
A quick phone call put their reservations to rights, and with the ease of seasoned travelers they said "Oops" and the journey continued on... (and provided countless hours of hilarity for their family and friends... they are on our DO NOT LET THEM PLAN OUR NEXT CAMPING TRIP list... we may end up on a deserted Island somewhere kind of humor.)
It's somewhat the same as we map the cancer road, minus much of the humor to be sure. Along the way on mom's pancreatic cancer journey, we had more than our fair share of "oops" moments... when things didn't go as expected, or even happen at all... when treatments failed or caused more than "slight discomfort." Harder here to just shrug it off and continue on.
This destination, this life... this journey is so vitally important. It is where life and death hang in the balance. Where every detour leaves us blinded and panicked...
How do we handle these dips and curves in the road? The ups and downs, the roller-coaster journey that cancer drags us through?
We are learning, moment by moment that this is where Grace finds us and carries us...
It is as much a part of the Journey as the doctors and treatment plans and decisions over clinical trials and alternative medicine.
Would you walk with me just a little further? Down roads where cancer isn't the main attraction? Where Life Lived Well trumps every dig from cancer's cruel grip?
There is a Way... There is a Peace that covers our path...even a path that is marked by pancreatic cancer.
Join me tomorrow as we explore the work of Hope, and Family, and Friends, and Love on this Cancer Journey...
There's always Grace enough for each day, Always,
Jane
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