Pink Saturday...When Life Hands You Lemons...

Make Lemonade!

I mean, make PINK Lemonade...

 because it's PINK Saturday.

Not just any Pink Saturday...

a "miracle" pink Saturday...

in honor of the "Miracle Makeover" for Colette,

a lovely lady fighting cancer.

Please go to Kelee's blog...The Katillac Shack to learn more.

Also, please visit Beverly from How Sweet the Sound

to find other lovelies celebrating a miracle pink Saturday.

Okay, so today's "assignment" was to post about

someone or something inspiring in our own lives.

Well, I've got that one covered.

I wrote about my summer adventure in yesterday's post

so if you're curious,

check it out by scrolling down.

On my 2nd day of IV treatment for MS, 

the unit was full so I had to take a seat in the chemo room.

One lovely lady who was also a patient started talking to me,

telling me of her long battle with cancer.

asking what I was doing there...

and encouraging me every single minute of our visit.

She was and still is a walking miracle!

Even her daughter came to my side,

giving me magazines, asking after me...

and telling me she would be praying for me...

a person she had just met.

What a beautiful family!

This lovely lady was my angel for those 5 days...

she kept me smiling instead of crying...

because she smiled instead of cried.

What a blessing she was in a very dark time!

Because of her, when I went for treatment,

I began to request a chair in the chemo room.  

These were very  brave people who had hope...

 and gave me hope.

From the man who couldn't speak due to cancer

to the one who couldn't walk...

and then there was my new friend...

they all had hope!

I knew then that I had to keep on with my life,

have faith and have HOPE.

Never lose hope!

 I was amazed at the people who reached out to me...

to encourage me, pray for me, tell me of their stories...

people I knew and those I had never met.

  Friends and family from far away...

friends I only knew through their blog...

and knew me the same way.

Blog friends...

SPECIAL friends!

I saved the messages I got and put them in a scrapbook.

Not a fancy one...just a way to remember how encouraging people

were to me...

Lots of people...

no, not just people...

FRIENDS!

How kind and caring many people in this big world really are.

Messages came from as far away as 

Australia, the Netherlands and Paris, France.

I am truly BLESSED!!!

In many ways.

On those days I don't feel so blessed, 

I only have to look at my Book of Hope...

because that's what all of you give me and others when

you take the time to encourage someone else,

to lift them up...

to tell them you care...

 that you will be there...

and that you will pray.

My sister, who loves to quilt and belongs to a quilt board,

told her friends about my situation...

and I even have pages of messages from these special ladies, too.

Amazing!

So on a day when we are sharing inspiration and miracles...

thank you for what you did for Colette...

and thank you for what you did...

and still do...

for me!

I received special messages from so many...

I want to share just one...but remember...

there were many.

And they were all so moving and sincere.

This one was sent to me shortly after my diagnosis

by one of my sisters.

Today...

Today you got a diagnosis in the Dr's office that changed your life, you will always remember where you were at 8 am on July 2nd!

And yet..........you have a loving husband who is a good provider and father to your two girls

and yet....you have two beautiful, kind, caring daughters who will always be there for you and bring you joy in the years to come

and yet you have two wonderful dogs that are your comfort and love you so unconditionally, a beautiful house to live in, parents who still love their "baby", good friends who will make you laugh and for a time forget what today brought, new friends who will sympathize like  no one else can as they too have been in your same situation....

And yet you have an older sister who loves you so much and still remembers the little girl she used to babysit and share a room with.....we always say we will be there for each other and now we start...... someday you will not remember this day until it is almost over....and then you will tell yourself it was just another day.....

Like I said...I am blessed!