I didn’t get to post about this on Janury 3rd so I’m posting today!! A year ago I found a photo of some of my favorite baby food at the time pumpkin and apple baby food because what else would it be?! 💁🏼 one comment on a photo and a DM on Instagram lead me to the giggly and randomness that is one of my weird soul mates Macy!! And Addie!! My friendship with Macy is deep and the bond we carry is strong! Two am FaceTime, Skype calls, tears over everything from the lost to a treatment not working, to Drs treating you horridly to the joy of a diagnoses. To the sadness of more disappointed and more diagnoses and more we don’t knows and more we don’t have treatment to we don’t know what’s wrong. But to finding postivity in the darkness and being grateful for the little things. Macy hasn’t just been one of the most Amazing people I’ve ever known but she has become one of my best friend and strongest people I know. We are fighting illnesses not seen by the naked eye we are fighting diseases, we are fighting our bodies. We don’t get days off we don’t get days to relax. But we fight through we never give up and we never let an illness win. Macy you are stronger then you Even could understand. You have a beautifully fantastic soul and I can’t wait to see were this friendship takes us!! (Also Kyle is pretty fantastic for always being. There and for fighting for Macy! Addie you rule!! And we all know that Rory and Addie FaceTime more then you and me.. 😍😂💁🏼💁🏼🙈 )
  Macy you and me got this!!! Let us fight! 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽😘 love you!! Happy one year friendversary and happy one year anniversary to being married to your wonderful husband!! 🌻🌻🌾

This is friendship when you are chronically ill. Online, through our cell phones, laptops, iPads, kindle fires, we are strong yet our bodies our week. 

  She was the first person I texted when I woke up from my stuff back in may I texted her photos of epipens and of my underwear.. Best friends doesn’t even cut it in my mind. Macy you rule we got this fight together we are stronger!! I love you!!  

 
Shannon DeRose.