Yesterday started out great actually.   I was in a fantastic mood, thinking I could do anything…take on the world.   I even posted it to my facebook page.  And that my friends, is when it all took a turn for the worse.

In order of tragedy:

• Lost huge annual advertiser.  Not one campaign, but six in total.  Tell me that’s not gonna leave a mark.
• Daughter comes home from school with hacking cough.
• Website goes down for 12 hours.
• Husband rents Star Trek making me want to spork my eyes out.

So I sat there thinking about how really bad my day was and how it totally sucks to be me and I logged on to twitter to tell the world so that they could also feel my pain.

Only there was a different kind of pain going on.    Real pain.   Life changing pain.

Anissa Mayhew, blogger and twitter goddess extraordinaire,  had suffered a massive stroke and as of this post is currently in the ICU fighting for her life.

For those of you that never had the pleasure of meeting her, she is an amazing girl with a personality that can light up a room.   She’s larger than life but also one of the sweetest people you would ever hope to meet, willing to help even  casual acquaintances like me at the drop of a hat…which she did on more than one occasion.   Anissa has been given many more reasons than I will ever have to complain about her life…she’s witnessed one of her three children battle cancer and she’s already survived one stroke before this one.    Things that would have made me hostile and bitter, yet she continues to make thousands of people smile on a daily basis with her quick sense of humor and her giant heart.  The evidence of her impact on the blogging community is clear on twitter, every other tweet I see is someone praying for her or asking for an update.   Anissa is loved and it shows.

So yeah, I don’t have it so bad after all.   In fact, I’m pretty damn fortunate.  Do me a favor and go hug your kids and then if you are the type, say a prayer for Anissa.

She’d do it for you.

If you’d like to tweet or follow what is going on, Anissa’s twitter id is @anissamayhew and offical updates will be coming from @aiminglow.    Also, please tag your tweets with #prayersforanissa.   Lastly, you can check in for updates at her Caring Bridge page HERE.