I currently have multiple close friends in distress....

[cilla4progress]

This is so deeply painful!

My sister friend for over 40 years has a 91 year old parent going through that long difficult decline at the end of their life AND just learned she may need a hysterectomy - is having a biopsy done. So..no flight home to pitch in on the caregiving.

Another dear friend's out-of-state sister was just diagnosed with a cancer and has begun the full gamut of treatment. We are going to see the Barbie movie today!

A 3rd lives in Spokane where the smoke from area fires has made the air beyond "hazardous" on the EPA chart. I suppose all outdoor lives there will cease to exist?

Summer of hell.

[MLAA]

1. Wishing your circle of friends and their families all the best.

[cilla4progress]

2. Thank you..

[Grasswire2]

3. I'm sorry. Hang on.

My own family has gone to hell in the past two months. Seriously, fallen apart in a breath-taking, shocking act of cruelty by the one who is an ordained minister!! Figure that out.

[cilla4progress]

7. I think you've shared about this here?

Tell us more?

[XanaDUer2]

4. I'm so sorry

[debm55]

5. Sorry cilla4progress, sending you and your friends love and hugs.

[cilla4progress]

6. Love my virtual community here-

[LoisB]

8. It always seems as if the "hits" come at the same time or one right after the other. I hope the

best for your friends and their families.

[calimary]

12. Well, the one - uh - "good" part is that hopefully it all gets OVER WITH

pretty much at the same time.

When that’s happened to me, it always seems that a time of somewhat more quiet recovery and readjustment follows, and then sometimes life returns to some version of “pleasantly boring.”

Nothing lasts forever, even this. Somehow, it always helps me to remember that.

[LoisB]

14. This is all true. Thank you for saying this. I need to remember it when I have those "what else?"

times.

[calimary]

15. You be sweet to yourself, LoisB.

Everybody here: that’s my same message.

We’ve got enough else to worry about, already!

[Marthe48]

9. Hard times right now

I hope your friends and mine get good news, or see improvement. Dreading the outcome makes it all worse.

[TygrBright]

10. Holding you and those you love in my heart. n/t

[MontanaMama]

11. That's a lot...

Thank you for being a good friend to so many. Yeah…summer of hell indeed. The wildfires are awful. We have a respite from smoke today for the first time in a week. There are so many people suffering.

I hope you enjoy the Barbie movie. I haven’t seen it yet.

[Bayard]

13. Good vibes to you and your friends, Cilla

Certainly seems like the old adage these days--When it rains, it pours.