We Can Do This

On opposite sides of the country, my best friend and I were looking at the same four walls you find in every hospital.  I was rapturously nursing my newborn daughter at my breast while my best friend was saying goodbye to one of hers.  At the ripe old age of 33, she was undergoing a mastectomy while I was in an O.R. getting my tubes tied. 
We've been friends since we were fourteen and though, most of our friendship has been spent in separate states, due to a move by my family, we have led pretty parallel lives...up until a year and a half ago.
Now, there's nothing funny about having cancer or loving someone with cancer but we've realized during this long journey that you have to laugh and you have to find humor.  And that's one of the reasons this blog has come into existence.  Maybe we won't be able to poke fun at ourselves every day but we"re sure as hell going to try to make someone smile.
For her latest round of chemo I began sending one funny card to her every day...then I ran out of stamps (or as my three year old muralist likes to call them, stickers). 
Hence, a blog she can access everyday for a little tee-hee-hee-hee and support.  We've been each other's lifelines for twenty years but this cancer thing, man, I'm gonna need your help to fight this foe.  Funny mom stories, funny friend stories, jokes, inspirational writings, quotes. 
And I'll do my part.  I promise, it'll be funny.
Now, I've got to see if this thing really worked. I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed when it comes to computers but if Carri can sit in a chemo chair for ten hour days, I can hen-peck my way through this mysterious world of blogging.