Aw shit.

I have a good friend S. She’s awesome. She needed IVF to conceive her second daughter, and though she didn’t always say the right thing when we were struggling, she kept calling me. And checking in. And telling me that I was going to be a parent someday.

He husband called tonight. And told us that last week she found a lump in her breast.

And that they just found out that it is cancer.

And she will not only have a lumpectomy, but perhaps a mastectomy.

And she starts chemotherapy this month.

I’m absolutely gutted. For them, for her two young daughters, for the babies she wanted to have.

And now won’t, since chemo will fry what’s left of her eggs.

And I’m scared for them. For the journey she’s about to embark upon.

Please keep them in your thoughts.