Childhood Friends
Hello dear readers...
I usually don't post this kind of thing, but today I want to share.
I grew up in a small California town. The friends I met in kindergarten were the friends I graduated high school with. One of those dear friends is Kambria. Kambria and I spent our childhoods together. We had sleep overs. Her dad coached the first basketball team we ever played on. We went to junior high dances together. We took college entrance exams together. And off and on, we met for coffee in later years to discuss college and marriage and then had our babies at the same time. As Shakespeare says, Kambria is the "calendar of my nativity". We've walked this life together.
Here she is below a few weeks ago with her newborn daughter, Willow.
Kambria is also mother to these two sweet peas, Kirra and Griffin.
While delivering Willow, doctors discovered and removed an over-enlarged ovary. Tests have now confirmed that Kambria has Neuroendcorine Carcinoma High grade - an extremely rare and aggressive cancer that has moved quickly throughout her body and brain. My darling friend is fighting for her life. She has undergone surgery and now faces months of chemotherapy and radiation treatments. And all of this within a month of delivering her third child.
Kambria is an extraordinary human. I have no doubt that she will beat the living daylights out of this cancer and reclaim her beautiful life. But while she's doing that, I don't think she should spend her precious energy trying to muscle through the crushing debt of cancer bills.