Karma is a bitch?

It's not my karma, at least, but two really bad things happened Friday and Saturday.

On Friday, I was talking to a friend, and bit by bit found out his wife (age 43) has a stage 3 breast cancer, but as it has gone into her lymph nodes, and on into her lungs, liver, kidneys, they are treating it as a stage four. It's the most aggressive kind of breast cancer, and she's positive for the BRAC gene. They've got two little girls, age 8 and 11. As he said, "the news just keeps getting worse and worse."

It kind of makes me want to throw up. I want nasty cancers to happen to axe murderers, not mom of little girls. What total, total crap.

She just started chemo, and I hope to shout it works. The beautiful energy of the universe take care of her.

Then Saturday night I was on my way to a party when my mother called. I thought this was odd, as she knew I was going to a party. Then she said, "I've been burgled." Almost burgled. She came down the driveway, coming home from church, as a man was walking up her driveway. She said, "What are you doing?" He said he was from a jobs program. He asked her where a gas station was. She told him and he left. She drove into the garage, got out of the car, and noticed the back bathroom window was open. It's never open. The screen was ripped. She went inside and there was a notepad on the bathroom floor. Mom went and called 911. The dispatcher stayed on the phone with her for 20 minutes until the cops showed up. Mom told them who she had seen, and the cops took off immediately - they had talked to the guy on the way there, but he gave them the same story, so they didn't do anything. They caught the guy, brought him back; mom id'd him. He went to jail.

Mom was pretty freaked, as you might imagine. I gotta wonder about the stupid criminal act: she thinks he dropped the notepad as he was trying to come in through the window. What I can't understand is that he had almost a half-hour to get away. If I had just met the owner of the house I was trying to rob, I'd be on my way out of the neighborhood very, very quickly. I don't get it. But I'm glad mom is okay, and I'm glad the guy is behind bars.

I'm ready for good news. Really!