{"id":3530,"date":"2020-07-31T20:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T00:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/?p=3530"},"modified":"2020-10-11T14:46:18","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T18:46:18","slug":"day-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/day-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Liam walked out to the living room when he got up, eyed the recliner for half a second, and walked past it toward the couch.  We all like the recliner best at our house; but first thing in the morning it&#8217;s my coffee spot.  &#8220;You can sit there, Liam,&#8221; I said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;No,&#8221; he said.  &#8220;That&#8217;s your spot.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is Liam.  He always looks out for others and I knew nothing would change just because he had cancer.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Liam, you&#8217;re fighting the hardest battle of anyone in this house.  Everyone wants to take care of you.  If the recliner is more comfortable for your leg, then sit there.&#8221;  He tilted his head a little as if to say, &#8220;if you insist,&#8221; and sank into the recliner.  That&#8217;s Liam. Not a bone of entitlement in his body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/July-20-4-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/July-20-4-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/July-20-4-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/July-20-4-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/July-20-4-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/July-20-4-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/July-20-4-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My friend&#8217;s, Rosy and Marla, came and scrubbed my house from top to bottom.  There isn&#8217;t a gift in the world that could have meant more to me that day.  Restored order and cleanliness and peace couldn&#8217;t bring our world back to order, but it allowed my body to relax a little and gave me the much needed space to answer phone calls from doctors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;d started reading everything I could possibly scour up on the internet about osteosarcoma as soon as I got off the phone Monday.  Even though she&#8217;d said it looked like osteosarcoma or ewings, my brain locked into osteosarcoma mode and never looked back.  It&#8217;s strange the way God tells us things even before we know them.  Sunday night before his xray my last words to David were, &#8220;I&#8217;m afraid Liam has cancer.&#8221;  We&#8217;d thought it was muscle for so long, but too many things were falling short.  I think it was God paving the way and softening the blow a tiny bit.  And in the same way, He provided comfort and direction for my heart before my brain was too traumatized to receive it.  Four days before the Xray a friend sent me this song.  I thought it was for that moment, and it was.  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