{"id":116,"date":"2009-06-24T22:36:57","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T22:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/yourcharmedlife\/2009\/06\/sometimes-its-just-hard.html"},"modified":"2009-06-24T22:36:57","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T22:36:57","slug":"sometimes-its-just-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/yourcharmedlife\/2009\/06\/sometimes-its-just-hard.html","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes It&#8217;s Just Hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s after 10 and I haven&#8217;t blogged yet. This morning my daughter saw that Aspen&#8217;s side was distended. She took her to the veterinary oncologist and learned the worst: Aspen&#8217;s lymphoma is no longer in remission. We were looking at two more treatments and many months of her being cancer-free, but overnight, everything changed. She has, according to the doctor, a few weeks.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The early part of my day was busy &#8212; tending to the campaign for\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.victoriamoran.com\/charmed\">Living a Charmed Life<\/a>,\u00a0<\/span>my\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthylife.net\">radio show<\/a>, a lunch meeting and a teleconference &#8212; and then I met Adair and the dogs at their place and just hung out. We watched Aspen gnaw on a chewie, oblivious to the vet&#8217;s prognosis and enjoying the moment. We watched her sleep and watched her eat and scratched her ears and rubbed her tummy. And I plan to be there and do that every day I can.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic\">New Yorkers: Attend Victoria&#8217;s class, &#8220;Living with Heart &amp; Soul,&#8221; about living a spiritual life in the real world, this Friday evening, June 26, at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opencenter.org\">New York Open Center<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s after 10 and I haven&#8217;t blogged yet. This morning my daughter saw that Aspen&#8217;s side was distended. She took her to the veterinary oncologist and learned the worst: Aspen&#8217;s lymphoma is no longer in remission. We were looking at two more treatments and many months of her being cancer-free, but overnight, everything changed. 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