This Year Sucks!

March 29, Kirk had surgery for kidney cancer. They removed half of his left kidney. His belly looks like he got in a knife fight with 7 incision marks. We found out he gets super chatty with anesthesia. We discover a black melanoma on the side of his leg and then another spot on his right shoulder. So he was diagnosed with Skin Cancer now too! 

April 8, Victoria is in severe abdominal pain. We are thinking appendicitis until we get the results of her CT Scan. Crohn's Disease Loud and Clear! What the heck? We get her on pain meds and take her home to manage this new diagnosis! We knew this was coming because she and Daphne have had similar symptoms for years. We've been trying to keep this from happening for a year now but I autoimmune diseases win? Not yet!

Yeah, she's faking a smile. Really, she was pretty mad and upset! She knows what Daphne has been going through with Ulcerative Colitis this past year. She was afraid of what was ahead! AND, this happened one week before she was to Interview to be a Utah State 4H Ambassador. One of 8 out of 13 kids were chosen! She put in so much work! (She made it in!!)

April 12, my Mom had another back surgery! Amazingly, she did very well and recovered quite well. Which was good because I thought I was going to explode! It was just too much to handle but we all did and we all survived!

 June 20, we traveled to Murray, UT for Kirks Skin Cancer surgery. He was injected with dye and went through the whole radiology process to locate lymph nodes. That night in the hotel room, we get a call from the doctor saying she had Covid and his surgery got rescheduled to July 1! So we got our money back, drove home the 2 hours and did it all over again on July 1! So now he not only looks like he got in a knife fight on his belly, but his leg looks like Frakenstein! 

Can we please be done with this year?