My Ridiculousness

Back in June Ben got a severe sun burn which started the beginning of a rash. I thought it was most likely scar tissue from the burn. Back in November my Honey started worrying that it was skin cancer. For obvious reasons Ben's paranoia remained just that.

Mid-December I started calling around and talking to a few different dermatologists and they all said the same thing. That it most likely was skin cancer, but the better of the two to have. The kind where you just scrap the cancer off and your good. With us not having health insurance they were all hesitant to take Ben as a new case.

We prepared ourselves for the worst case scenario. Both emotionally and financially. We both felt okay with the possiblity of skin cancer.

We were blessed to have found a place in Provo that does free skin cancer screenings. We went on January 12th and and was told that it was not skin cancer. The doctor wasn't sure what is causing the rash (maybe a fungus), but he was sure that he had never seen skin cancer look like the rash on Ben's back, so in his opinion it is not skin cancer.

Now I feel ridiculous about it. My thinking was, "everything else is going horribly wrong, why not this too". But Ben is good and David has been given stronger antibiotics which hopefully will clear up his ears. Life is good.

talk

so here is the talk mentioned below. you can read the whole thing or simply scroll down to the end to read the story. and I would like to know honesty if anyone thought of this story from my description?

5 things

1. sticky hands have left permanent marks on our doors.

2. David is onto his third ear infection and headed to tubes.

3. Ben is taking us to the Carl Bloch exhibit tomorrow. super duper excited!

4. Brianna just changed David's pooped diaper.

5. Ben most likely has skin cancer.

so much for a less up and down filled year. I keep thinking about that one conference talk about the young couple traveling and their car breaks down twice in the same spot. 30 years later he thinks to himself keep going, good things will come. this is horribly shortened. i hope good things come this year for us.