Andrea Gibson

Absolutely.

No, I actually, I usually go dash your favorite poet.

Um,

But I wrote years ago, I said, even when the truth isn't hopeful, the telling of it is.

And I realized that for these last two years, my folks have made decisions based on assuming that this definitely wasn't going to come back.

And so, you know, we may have seen each other more and stuff like that.

And so I don't really believe in regrets.

I mean, my only regrets in life are the ones where I

I've heard other people, but still I'm questioning that at this point because, because all these things that were supposed to make my life worse, that were hurts and challenges, they, they made my life more rich at this point.

So I don't really know, but my folks are, they're going through it and they're sending me, you know, beautiful messages every day.

And my mom and I are similar in that we both,

get a lot of joy and peace from being out in the garden and so we'll we'll talk about the garden but yeah I'm I I would say that of all the grief I feel through this very rarely does it have to do with my own self it's about the people who love me and and my parents especially probably because of my grandma but my grandma's been with me through this whole thing oh and my dad and

You know, when I tell you about, I also believe in the realm of miracles and magic.

When I first started going through chemo in the very beginning, I lost every hair on my body to chemo.

I mean, every hair, y'all, it's creepy.

And except for my eyebrows, I kept my eyebrows, but I didn't tell anybody.

I wasn't talking about the fact that I still had my eyebrows cut.

And then my mother called me up one morning and said, you'll never believe what happened this morning.

And I said, what?

And she's like, your father woke up with his right eyebrow missing.