this might be part of why this hits hard -- she's over a decade younger than me and has a brain tumor which is going to dramatically shorten her life expectancy. At one point, everything was going better than he was expected to. Now it's going worse than expected. And while she's ok, the chemo is just so hard on her body. I can feel the optimism draining out of the situation. There was a point in all of this where she could meet up with us and "feel normal" and we are not in that era right now.
The next round is supposed to be a little less taxing, so fingers crossed, but the number it does on your body... I felt like our group of friends was being a little naïve about what she was in for.
