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Great news and tagged January 29, 2008

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First, Stop over at WhyMommy’s! She got clean margins on her breast cancer! But, (of course there is a but), they found cancer in the other breast as well. Keep her in your thoughts that they caught that nice and early so that she is now cancer free!

 
Second, I’ve been tagged by Penelope Anne of the Cafe at the End of the Universe!! Eek!

 First, the rules, which are important, because they also tag — randomly — six more people to join in the fun:

1. Link to the person that tagged you
2. Post the rules on your blog
3. Share six non-important things/habits/quirks about yourself
4. Tag six random people at the end of your post by linking to their blogs
5. Let each random person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their website.

 Hmmm

Random quirks about me:

  1. I dispise spiders. Hate hate hate them! Really!
  2. I like to eat Honey Comb cereal with kool-aid instead of milk (I know!)
  3. A dorito and peanut butter sandwich is supreme
  4. I love the feeling of snot freezing in my nose when it is really cold out
  5. I watch TV shows on ghosts and UFOs and then scare myself silly with shadows
  6. Sunday afternoons in the late winter are depressing because there are no good sports on.

 

I suck at tagging, so if you wish to do this meme, go ahead and leave me a comment so I can hunt you down! BRAHAHAHAHAHA

 

* BTW- I may be AWOL this week. We have a NSR to prepare for (NASA Senior Review) and we are all really busy 

Tomorrow- January 21, 2008

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Tomorrow, WhyMommy goes into surgery to remove cancer from her body. The goal is to get it all out and help her move onto to the next phase of life, the one without cancer and with her kids and husband.

Tomorrow, please give a series of good thoughts to WhyMommy!

 

The Other Shoe… Lisa’s Story October 23, 2007

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I got the book "The Other Shoe…Lisa’s Story" on Saturday. I was done Saturday night. It’s a fast read, but HARD. So hard.

For a quick summary, Lisa Moore discovers a lump in her breast. It is cancer. She gets a mastectomy, chemo, etc. She is finally declared cancer free. She debates and decides on reconstructive surgery.  Fast forward 7 years later. She is helping her support group and goes for a blood test. Follow up tests are requested. The cancer is back and it has metastasized. There is a brief mix up where she thinks she is cancer free, but after a while, she decides to stop treatment and to let herself live the life she had left.

It was a hard read because her daughter is the same age as Soleil. It was hard because she was ready to die. I am not in the position. I was up for a long time on Saturday night. I thought about the story because it is not all that uncommon. A young woman, with kids, struck down by cancer. There are many many success stories. There are many who live and I want to focus on that, but there are still those who can’t win.

A recent study showed that the woman’s outlook did not change the course of cancer. This is good to me to hear. I think that focusing on the whole body, mental and physical is important, but to tell a cancer patient that they need to stay positive or they will die… That just seems harsh. Even if people don’t use those words, that is what you are saying to tell a patient to think positive thoughts.

Luna is becoming obsessed with death. She asks when will I die and when will Soleil die. She can’t comprehend Jay dying, so she doesn’t ask. Today she told me that she isn’t ready to die. And I am not either. But if I ever got to the place that Lisa did, I hope that I can take a good look at my life and say "this was a good life. It may have been shorter than I wanted, but I have made a difference." And to be able to face death, not with fear, but with grace.

BTW- the book has started a new fund at a major cancer center in Cleveland!

Consider buying this book September 7, 2007

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Funky Winkerbean was one of my favorite comics growing up:
We have pre-ordered "Lisa’s Story- The Other Shoe", The story of Lisa, her breast cancer, her beating cancer, and her current losing of the fight.

For the women, and men, in your life, Consider buying this book.